Mon.May 15, 2023

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO

When leaders consider how technology has enabled the transformation of business models over the past several years, few would disagree that the world has changed dramatically. Retail, entertainment, music, and banking have largely moved online. It’s a familiar story: Netflix beat Blockbuster; Amazon beat Borders. More recently, Tesla has transformed the experience of buying, owning, and driving a car.

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VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think

TechCrunch

Conventional wisdom around AI investment suggests artificial intelligence should be red hot right now with dollars flying at startups building with AI, akin to what was happening last year with web3 and metaverse companies. Well, guess what? According to a new report from CB Insights, conventional wisdom is wrong — dead wrong. AI has been around for decades, but only recently have we seen a resurgence of interest in the sector with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the end of last year.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. Other sports have been quick to embrace the use of data and analytics to transform how athletes are recruited, trained, and prepped for competitions, how they adjust to changing circumstances during play, and how they break down successes and failures after competition.

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Active founders make good investors, but do they make good VCs?

TechCrunch

Operator experience has become critical in venture capital over the last few years. Pure-play financial VCs are falling out of favor with startups compared to investors who bring building experience alongside their cash. But not all operating backgrounds are equally helpful. If a VC has experience in a different field, it may not translate well — if at all — to a startup, and advice around certain business decisions could quickly become outdated.

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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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Navigate Workplace Conflict: 3 Powerful Phrases to Foster Better Connection

Let's Grow Leaders

Recognize the Humanity in Others as You Navigate Workplace Conflict To effectively navigate workplace conflict, prioritize connecting with the human at the center of it all. Begin by acknowledging the situation and expressing your optimism about finding a resolution collaboratively. Consider using these impactful phrases to start a conversation focused on empathy and understanding as you navigate workplace disagreements. 1.

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Dialog Enterprise: keeping the data of Sri Lanka’s enterprises safe and sovereign

CIO

Offering an extensive portfolio of ICT solutions and services in conjunction with its high-available data centers, fastest broadband internet and telecommunications networks for consumers and businesses, Dialog Enterprise is one of the most trusted information and communication technology brands in Asia. Now it is also the first provider in Sri Lanka to earn the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

Generative AI — AI that can write essays, create artwork and music, and more — continues to attract outsize investor attention. According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68 billion worth of deals announced in the quarter but not yet completed. There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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How to: Deploy Terraform to AWS with GitHub Actions authenticated with OpenID Connect

Xebia

In the past it was very common to use AWS credentials (access token and secret) in your GitHub actions pipeline. This poses a security risk because most of the time these AWS credentials are long-lived credentials with a lot of permissions. If these credentials get leaked or misused the damage done could be huge. In my previous blog I wrote about leaked credentials and the events after the leak, read more about it here: What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage

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Europe could be on the cusp of a golden era in robotics. Here’s why

TechCrunch

Robin Godenrath Contributor Robin Godenrath is founding partner and managing director at Picus Capital. His focus is early-stage technology investments, particularly in HR tech, robotics, and healthcare industries. Alex Rohregger Contributor Share on Twitter Alex Rohregger is an Investor at Picus Capital. His focus is on early-stage robotics, AI, and DevTool investments.

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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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Co-present your Slides in Google Meet, no more ‘Next Please’!

Xebia

Have you ever hosted a video conference with multiple speakers where you used a slidedeck to present? If you have, you know that it wasn’t very efficient: you either had to change who was actually sharing the slides or the one sharing the slides had to follow the speaker’s instructions “Next slide, please”. You may be happy to hear that, from now on, you can invite other participants to co-present during a Meet session.

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Only hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt

TechCrunch

A last call and a major shout-out to any and all early-stage founders. It’s time to dig deep and take advantage of an unparalleled opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. I’m referring to the Startup Battlefield 200. Applications to Startup Battlefield 200 close today All good things must come to an end, and the Startup Battlefield 200 experience isn’t just good — it’s great.

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Nobl9 Adds Tools to Make SLO Queries More Efficient

DevOps.com

At its SLOconf event today, Nobl9 added a Query Tester tool that validates whether queries made against the data its service level objectives (SLO) management platform collects will deliver meaningful results. Nobl9’s SLO management platform collects data in real-time from data sources such as New Relic, Datadog and Dynatrace to help customers meet SLOs.

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TechCrunch Live events, but a podcast

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Live had some amazing shows over the last few months. I know it’s hard to keep up. Every Wednesday, at 12:00 pm PDT, the live event features top founders and investors talking through issues facing their industries right now. The interviews are led by top TechCrunch editors (and me). If you can’t make the live shows, they’re available on YouTube for viewing and the podcasts embedded here.

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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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Expanding the Word Diversity to Be More Inclusive

N2Growth Blog

In the past several years, executive search firm KPIs relied heavily on efforts made in the areas of diversity , equity, and inclusion (DEI), but we have been making progress in the wrong way, and this isn’t what you are expecting. Of course, we should be monitoring success in these areas, but the DEI efforts I am suggesting we track should be more inclusive rather than just the small representation of DEI we see being reported.

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VC funding of women climate tech founders is abysmal. Here’s how it could improve

TechCrunch

The venture community has realized several things in recent years: Climate change isn’t going away, and there is a huge opportunity to invest in companies that promise to define entire segments of the future economy. With a few hiccups along the way, venture dollars have begun to flow with increasing volume and regularity to climate tech startups over the last few years.

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Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.Kora.

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UK pension startup Smart banks $95M

TechCrunch

Smart , a London-based startup that helps employers and their employees manage and monitor their pensions, said that it has closed $95 million in Series E funding. It plans to use the capital to expand its international footprint and make acquisitions, it said. Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays, Chrysalis Investments, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DWS, and Natixis Investment Managers also participating.

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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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Perficient Listed as a Regional Partner for Adobe in IDC Market Perspective: Adobe Summit 2023

Perficient

IDC Market Perspective: Experience-Led Growth, Generative AI, and Content Supply Chains This year was the first time in three years that Adobe has been able to host not only Adobe Summit in-person again, but also the Analyst Day with its partners. Analyst Day is an opportunity for Adobe partners to chat with research analysts and share insights on Adobe’s partner ecosystem.

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Hear how MinIO built a unicorn in object storage on top of Kubernetes and open source

TechCrunch

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. The pitch sounds amazing: simple, high performance, and a native Kubernetes integration. I’m excited to announce I’m interviewing Kapoor and MinIO investor Mark Rostick of Intel Capital on MinIO’s growth and how the company manages serious competition.

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New Relic Taps Generative AI to Simplify Observability

DevOps.com

New Relic has added a tool that takes advantage of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler to query the telemetry data collected by its observability platform via a natural language interface (NLI). Jemiah Sius, director of developer relations for New Relic, said New Relic Grok will make the New Relic One platform more […] The post New Relic Taps Generative AI to Simplify Observability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Vice files for bankruptcy, Foxconn’s investment in India and two fascinating startup rounds

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. This week we talked about media, startup rounds and some Big Money Moves: Stocks are mostly up to start the week while crypto remains within the bounds of its recent trading range.

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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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Google Previews Generative AI Service to Improve Code

DevOps.com

Google is previewing an instance of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service that surfaces code recommendations to make it possible to build high-quality applications faster. Specifically, Duet AI for Google Cloud surfaces code recommendations in real-time, generates full functions and code blocks and suggests fixes for vulnerabilities and errors in the code that it discovers. […] The post Google Previews Generative AI Service to Improve Code appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Bulk User Migration Approach in Azure AD B2C

Perficient

With Azure AD B2C, you can migrate and consolidate users from other identity provider systems. In this blog, I’ll walk you through one approach for migrating user accounts: a Bulk Migration in one batch. Read More: Consolidating Users into One Identity Provider with Azure AD B2C Bulk migration can be done with little-to-no impact to the end user as long as the user account details (such as usernames, passwords, emails, account information, etc.) are readily available in a format that can be expo

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Four Trends Defining the Observability Market in 2023

DevOps.com

Observability is a market that has grown exponentially over the past few years. It started as a buzzword in late 2015 and early 2016, and since then we’ve seen dozens of insurgent companies rush in, eager to stake their claim in a new (albeit loosely defined) market. Incumbent companies also rebranded their wares, hoping to […] The post Four Trends Defining the Observability Market in 2023 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Azure AD B2C “Just In Time” User Migration Approach

Perficient

“Just In Time” User Migration This is a continuation of our B2C series on consolidating users identities into Azure B2C. So far we have looked at the benefits on consolidating user accounts into Azure B2C and a brief overview of the Bulk Migration strategy for migrating users from an existing identity provider into Azure B2C. The Just in Time (JIT) migration flow for migrating users in Azure B2C should be used if plaintext passwords in the old identity provider are not accessible OR

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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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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […] The post Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to help engineers make time for on-the-job training

Gitprime

Lack of time is technologists' biggest barrier to upskilling. Here's how you can help your engineers make time for on-the-job training.

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Scaling Event-Driven Applications Made Easy With Sveltos Cross-Cluster Configuration

Dzone - DevOps

Event-driven architectures are becoming increasingly popular as a way to build scalable, decoupled, and resilient systems. Sveltos is an open-source to deploy add-ons in tens of #Kubernetes clusters. Sveltos also has a built-in event-driven framework that makes it easy to deploy add-ons on Kubernetes clusters as a result of events. What Is Sveltos? Sveltos is a powerful open-source project that makes managing Kubernetes add-ons a breeze.