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Aventurine helps early-stage founders find their footing

TechCrunch

“There’s a ton of stuff that really could be impacting the lives of everybody on Earth, that is not making it out of the lab and into practical application,” said David Van Wie, founder and chief investment officer at Aventurine Capital Group. That’s how he summarizes the problem he is trying to solve with his IP-forward accelerator. He hopes that spinning out companies — and letting inventors and academics continue to do what they do best — is a winning formula.

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Well-maintained Software

Henrik Warne

Two months ago, I was a guest on the Maintainable podcast. The first question the host Robby Russell asks is “What are a few characteristics of well-maintained software?” This is such a great question, and I thought I would expand a bit on my answer from the show. That software is well-maintained only matters if you need to change it. If you never have to change it, it doesn’t matter how it is done, as long as it works.

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How Swytch used ‘crowdshopping’ to scale without VC money

TechCrunch

The pandemic era taught many of us that bikes are a great way to get around cities. Doubly so if they are e-bikes, replete with batteries to help reduce the amount of sweat required to get somewhere. Swytch Technology , a startup that builds e-bike conversion kits, isn’t targeting your average cyclist in the United States or Europe, however. Instead, the U.K.

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What Is Argo CD? The GitOps Tool for Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

Argo CD is a continuous delivery (CD) tool that has gained popularity in DevOps for performing application delivery onto Kubernetes. It relies on a deployment method known as GitOps. GitOps is a mechanism that can pull the latest code and application configuration from the last known Git commit version and deploy it directly into Kubernetes resources.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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For your pitch, last impressions count almost as much as first impressions

TechCrunch

Your first slide is obviously important for a pitch deck; first impressions count, and having a solid introduction goes a long way. It seems that founders often forget that the last slide is just as important. There’s a simple reason for that: Investors easily look at hundreds of slide decks per month, and it’s hard to remember them all.

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Optimizely Configured Commerce – Learn CMS Spire 5.X Part-2

Perficient

In this blog, we will learn below points: Understanding 5.x Architecture for Spire CMS How to start a Spire project? Follow the instructions below for use with Visual Studio Code Creating new blueprints in Spire Understanding 5.x Architecture for Spire CMS The 4-tier architecture of B2B Commerce (ISC) 5.x is described in this blog. Architecture Stack : – Image Source by: Optimizely Site Application Structure : Widgets and RESTful APIs have been included into the refactored application fram

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Benefits of Flutter for Mobile App Development

Xicom

Flutter is quickly becoming one of the most popular mobile app development frameworks. With its revolutionary features and capabilities, it is transforming the way apps are built and used. In this blog post, we’ll explore the nine revolutionary benefits of Flutter for mobile app development.

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Accessible Rich Internet Applications: Building Accessible Websites with Native HTML Part 2 of 5

Perficient

A Guide to Creating Accessible and Meaningful Web Content In the world of web development, accessibility has become a crucial factor in designing and building websites. Accessibility ensures that everyone, regardless of their abilities, can access and use a website without any barriers. Semantic HTML is one of the most essential tools in creating an accessible website.

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CodeSOD: Randomly Generated

The Daily WTF

There was an era, briefly, where corporations flirted with the idea of replacing their web based UIs with Flash. There were even UI frameworks, like Flex, built to support that kind of migration. Yes, it was a disaster. But not quite as much of a disaster as this action script code that Daniel found. At some point, someone at Initech decided they needed to implement a random number generator.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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IBM App Connect Enterprise Unit and Component Tests

Dzone - DevOps

Integration flows often interact with multiple external services such as databases, MQ queue managers, CICS regions, etc., and testing the flows has historically required all of the services to be available when running tests. This provides a high degree of confidence that the flows behave correctly for the tested scenarios, but the number of scenarios that can be tested this way is often too small to provide sufficient confidence that the overall solution will behave correctly in all (or even m

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How Cloud Computing Can Help Businesses? A Comprehensive Guide

OTS Solutions

Every industry is taking advantage of cloud computing services because of their advantages. In this blog, we discuss the information that shows the need for cloud computing in businesses to grow. Furthermore, we also cover the points that you need to keep in mind while choosing the right service provider for cloud computing for businesses. Let us discuss our discussion by understanding what cloud computing in businesses is.

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6 Strategies To Enhance Candidate Engagement In Tech Hiring (+ 3 Unique Examples)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Lately, you are finding it difficult to onboard talented candidates. You notice a lot of candidates are dropping off at the job application stage, some have stopped replying to you after the interview, and some more have simply ghosted you, post rolling out an offer letter. If this continues and promising talent keeps dropping out of your hiring process, you know the answer.

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Early-stage fintech startups just got a new funding source

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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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.