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How to Cut Design Sprints in Half

DevOps.com

Any company that has created a product in the digital sphere will no doubt be familiar with the purpose of design sprints. Traditionally both back-end and front-end developers, designers, marketing teams and other stakeholders in the company come together over the course of five days to prototype ideas, gather insights on users and validate them […].

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Airbnb files to go public

TechCrunch

Airbnb filed to go public today , bringing the well-known unicorn one step closer to being a public company. The financial results show a company on the rebound, but smaller than it was. Its more granular financial results also make clear how hard the pandemic was on the travel-reliant unicorn. Regarding Airbnb’s worth, investors will have to balance how they value recovery and recent profits over the company’s disrupted historical growth arc.

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Agile2021: 20 years of “Responding to Change Over Following a Plan”

Agile Alliance

With everything going on in this world right now, I’ve found myself using the phrase “I don’t know” more than ever and I’m guessing that you’re probably feeling the same way. As mentioned in a previous post, planning a great conference when it seems the answer to every question is “I don’t know” is a … Continued. The post Agile2021: 20 years of “Responding to Change Over Following a Plan” first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. Zilliz ‘s latest financing round shows that attitude is changing. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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How to Exit Your Job With Grace and Support Your Successor

Let's Grow Leaders

How do you exit your job with grace? You’re on to the next thing. Perhaps it was your call. Maybe not. Maybe you’re happy. Perhaps you’re not. In fact, perhaps “not happy” is an understatement. But it’s not about you. It’s about […]. The post How to Exit Your Job With Grace and Support Your Successor appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Intel’s Success Came With Making Its Own Chips. Until Now.

CTOvision

Read Asa Fitch take a look at how Intel Corporation has ended up outsourcing its chip-making business on Wall Street Journal: The Silicon Valley pioneer long held it had to […].

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Strava raises $110 million, touts growth rate of 2 million new users per month in 2020

TechCrunch

Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia, and including participation by Dragoneer group, Madrone Capital Partners, Jackson Square Ventures and Go4it Capital. The funding will be used to propel the development of new features, and expand the company’s reach to cover even more users.

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7 ways doing Scrum wrong hurts software quality

TechBeacon

When quality issues arise, many Scrum teams look to testing and technical development practices to address the problems. What they often miss is that poor implementation of Scrum has directly contributed to their quality issues.

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Computer vision startup Chooch.ai scores $20M Series A

TechCrunch

Chooch.ai , a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today. Vickers Venture Partners led the round with participation from 212, Streamlined Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Waterman Ventures and several other unnamed investors. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $25.8 million, according to the company. “Basically we set out to copy human visual intelligence

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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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Burnaby-based Teradici talks bringing the World Series to life, winning an Emmy

CTOvision

Chances are you’re not super familiar with the name Teradici, but if you haven’t already consumed entertainment that the Burnaby-based company had a hand in creating, you probably will soon. Launched […].

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Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform

TechCrunch

Arrikto , a startup that wants to speed up the machine learning development lifecycle by allowing engineers and data scientists to treat data like code, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $10 million Series A round. The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. “Our technology at Arrikto helps companies overcome the complexities of implementing and managing machine learning applications,” Arrikto CEO and co-founder Constantin

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Palo Alto Networks revenue rises but loss widens

CTOvision

Palo Alto Networks Inc. said its revenue grew for the recent quarter as billings rose, though its loss widened as operating expenses increased. The cybersecurity company on Monday posted a loss […].

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Harbr raises $38.5M to help enterprises exchange and share big data troves securely

TechCrunch

Organizations today are sitting on mountains of data that they amass and use in their own businesses, but many are also looking to share those troves with other parties to expand their prospects — a model that comes with challenges (privacy and data protection being two key ones); and, these days (due to COVID-19 and the push to more digital transformation), with urgency; but also big rewards if you can pull it off well.

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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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No office, no problem: software unicorn-Gitlab’s CEO warns you are probably doing remote work wrong

CTOvision

Sid Sijbrandij knows the perils of working from home. In 2018, after years of toiling exclusively from a small room in his 47th-floor apartment in a San Francisco high-rise, the […].

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3 growth tactics that helped us surpass Noom and Weight Watchers

TechCrunch

Henrik Torstensson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Henrik Torstensson is CEO and co-founder of Lifesum. Previously, he was Head of Premium Sales at Spotify and SVP, Strategy at Stardoll. Many consumers might think Noom or Weight Watchers are industry leaders with their nonstop commercials, but neither is the fastest-growing weight management program.

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Tecton Becomes Feast Core Contributor to Build the Most Advanced Open Source Feature Store for Machine Learning

DevOps.com

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tecton, the enterprise feature store company, today announced that it will become a core contributor to Feast and allocate engineering and financial resources to the project to build advanced capabilities. Feast is the leading open source feature store for machine learning (ML) that bridges data and models and […].

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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). Though both focus on the building industry (specifically, the codes architects and builders need to follow), the lawsuit deals with an issue that has wider ramifications: is it possible to copyright the law, or text that carries the weight of the law?

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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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Competition launches for Covid-safe pax/cargo cabins

CTOvision

Many airlines have implemented social distancing measures in their aircraft cabins in order to help prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV- 2 (Covid-19) virus on board. While existing cabin layouts can […].

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Unpacking the C3.ai IPO filing

TechCrunch

The last thing I recall thinking about C3.ai (C3) was seeing its billboards outside San Francisco and asking myself what the hell the company actually did and how much it was spending on huge outdoor advertisements. So much for what I know. The company filed to go public on Friday , and instead of being a cash-burning, buzzwordy mess, C3 is actually in pretty good financial shape, generating both growing recurring software revenues and cash in some quarters.

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TigerGraph Named a Graph Data Platform Leader by Independent Research Firm

DevOps.com

Company’s Scalable Graph Database Receives Highest Scores Possible for Transactions, Scalability and Performance REDWOOD CITY, CA – Nov. 16, 2020 – TigerGraph, the only scalable graph database for the enterprise, today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Graph Data Platforms, Q4 2020 report.

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Squarespace adds support for memberships and paywalled content

TechCrunch

Squarespace is adding a new monetization option for websites built on the platform: Member Areas, where businesses can charge for access to exclusive content. Chief Product Officer Paul Gubbay said that particularly in the midst of the pandemic, businesses on Squarespace “want to experiment with different ways to make money.” They can already use the platform to sell products and services, and even to schedule appointments , but with Member Areas, “We allow you to sell your exp

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Scalyr Adds Hindsight Service to IT Analytics Portfolio

DevOps.com

Scalyr has moved to reduce the cost of observability by enabling DevOps teams to retain log and event data in S3-compatible object storage systems than use a pay-per-TB-scanned pricing model to interrogate that data. Company CEO Christine Heckart said the Scalyr Hindsight service will make it possible for IT teams to more cost-effectively store historical […].

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Equity Monday: C3.AI files to go public and Vision Fund 2 leads $100M round

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 we wound up titling “ Th O’s r ptinal,

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Growing as a Scrum Master and Beyond

Agile42

Last Wednesday, the 11th of November, we ran our webinar "Growing as a Scrum Master and Beyond"! This topic clearly resonated with many, as we. Continue reading Growing as a Scrum Master and Beyond at agile42.

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Undock raises $1.6M to help solve your group scheduling nightmares

TechCrunch

Over the past decade, many startups have tried (and many have failed) to rethink the way we schedule our meetings and calls. But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Undock , an Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed startup , is looking to enter the space.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Codefresh Launches First Components of GitOps 2.0 Offering and Engages Community on Standards

DevOps.com

The new offering promises observability into what’s running in production – at scale, where potential issues arise and control over rollbacks and the release process Mountain View, Calif., November 16, 2020 – Today Codefresh launched a new initiative – GitOps 2.0 – which seeks to solve limitations that have existed in GitOps and promote best practices for the future.

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PingCAP, the open-source developer behind TiDB, closes $270 million Series D

TechCrunch

PingCAP , the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. TiDB handles hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP), and is aimed at high-growth companies, including payment and e-commerce services, that need to handle increasingly large amounts of data. The round’s lead investors were GGV Capital, Access Technology Ventures, Anatole Investment, Jeneration Capital and 5Y Capital (formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital).

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Combating Fraud in Insurance with Data

Cloudera

Well, it is International Fraud Awareness Week, focused on promoting fraud prevention and education. A fantastic initiative! Maybe I am naïve but I feel a bit sad that there is a need for “fraud week”. The insurance industry has a long and intimate relationship with fraud in many different ways. Insurance fraud can take place at a process or business function level, most notably in claims or underwriting.

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