TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Africa’s appetite for cloud computing software continues to increase as connectivity and bandwidth opportunities push boundaries. Per reports, the continent’s cloud computing industry coupled with the Middle East is expected to grow to $31.4 billion in 2026 from $14.2 billion last year. SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has rai

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 12, 2022

Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis are also back with the New Year with a couple more articles from Patterns of Legacy Displacement in the funnel for the next couple of weeks. This one describes a Legacy Mimic: a part of the new system designed to make the old system think that nothing has changed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Payments company Checkout.com isn’t just a unicorn — it has closed a $1 billion Series D funding round. Following today’s round, the company is now valued at $40 billion. That’s a stark increase compared to last year’s valuation. With its Series C round , the company raised $450 million at a $15 billion valuation — it represents a 167% valuation jump in 12 months, which is not too bad.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 12, 2022

What do you think will AI replace programmers in the future? It may look like a sci-fi movie scene where every code will be typed automatically. But can AI write codes with accuracy and replace programmers? According to the research, over 50% of jobs in America will go automated by the end of 2030. and their robots will be working instead of human hands to save the company’s cost and increase productivity.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Aleksandra Korczynska. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Aleksandra Korczynska , the CMO of GetResponse, guides global SaaS marketing and growth. Driven by data analytics and growth hacking, she has crafted go-to-market strategies for global brands (ex-Uber) and tech startups alike. Sales stand and fall on leads, but attracting prospects and optimally converting them into buyers is an art that many have yet to grasp.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Nuro showed off Wednesday one of the final pieces of its commercial autonomous delivery strategy. The startup, which has raised more than $2.13 billion since former Google engineers Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu founded the company in June 2016 , unveiled a third-generation electric autonomous delivery vehicle designed for commercial operations and manufactured in partnership with BYD North America.

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Xebia

JANUARY 12, 2022

Test-driven development (TDD) has been around for more than 20 years. Nearly all of the greats in software underline it as an important and valuable method. Sadly, a lot of developers still don’t do it in practice. . Many people think of TDD as a methodology for testing because of its name. There are some negative feelings towards writing tests.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. Now, as we shift back into more “normal” behavior, a startup that’s helping to better understand where and how we are getting around has picked up a significant round of funding.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

Blockchain is hot right now. The industry has a staggering CAGR rate of over 69% between 2019 to 2025. Blockchain is no longer only relevant to cryptocurrency, either—blockchain-based applications are emerging to support many other scenarios that require decentralized data storage and accessibility. I recently met with Medha Parlikar, co-Founder and CTO, CasperLabs, to learn […].

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

When we think about identity in the digital world, it usually involves a username and password, but Merit (originally called Sigma) wants to help governments issue digital credentials that link back to a government license database with the goal of bringing an end to flimsy paper cards. Today the company announced a hefty $50 million Series B. Rose Park Advisors led the round with participation from prior investors a16z, Bow Capital and Govtech Fund, along with new investors Experian Ventures, S

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

As 2022 kicks off, it’s becoming apparent that the major DevOps challenge organizations will face is mastering best practices that enable continuous delivery. A global survey of more than 19,000 software development professionals conducted by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation found 44% of respondents use either continuous integration or deployment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

HomeValet , a D.C. Metro area-based startup that has developed a temperature-controlled smart box for grocery deliveries, is now releasing its smart home product to the public and expanding its partnership with Walmart. The company had previously piloted its Smart Box with Walmart in 2021 as a way for grocery delivery customers to keep their fresh and frozen items cold while also ensuring their deliveries remained secure until they could retrieve them.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

The term DevOps emerged into mainstream software development communities roughly 10 years ago. It represented a combination of tools and techniques which helped solve many pertinent issues of the time, namely responsibility for code in production and lack of a positive feedback loop. As of today, DevOps is a massive movement. It is considered the […].

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

DeepScribe , an AI-powered medical transcription platform, has raised $30 million in series A funding led by Nina Achadjian at Index Ventures, with participation from Scale.ai CEO Alex Wang, Figma CEO Dylan Field, and existing investors Bee Partners, Stage 2 Capital and 1984 Ventures. The company’s latest round of funding follows its $5.2 million seed round announced in May 2021.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 12, 2022

As others have observed, the year 2022, when said aloud, sounds like "2020 too"—like an unwanted sequel or the continuation of a bad dream. When Microsoft recently announced it had found a glitch in its server technology akin to the old Y2K issue, you could be forgiven for imagining some surreal, dark drama replaying itself. As another commentator put it, "2021 felt a lot like 2020, especially when it came to tech.".

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

This morning, Public , an investment app for the American market, announced the appointment of two new board members. The startup also provided some details regarding its growth in the COVID era, a period that generated strong results for a number of services that allowed users to save and invest. Public has added Jessica Neal , former chief talent officer at Netflix and present-day venture partner at TCV to its board, along with Dr.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 12, 2022

The pandemic was the catalyst for a series of harsh and unpredictable changes in industries ranging from real estate to food service to child care, health, care and beyond. And, one common denominator that has affected all these industries since 2020 is steeply declining employee retention. ILEC was started at the height of the pandemic […]. The post How Leaders Can Retain Employees During The Great Resignation appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SME-focused business travel booking platform TravelPerk has topped up the $160 million in equity and debt it raised last in a Series D last April with an additional $115 million — closing out the round at $275 million. TravelPerk said its business is now being valued at $1.3 billion — meaning it’s achieved coveted “unicorn” status.

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Confluent

JANUARY 12, 2022

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.23.1! This release allows you to now perform pull queries on streams, which makes it much easier to find a given record in a topic. […].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Jakarta-based investment app Pluang announced that it has raised $55 million led by Accel. This is a follow-on to its Series B and brings that round’s total to $110 million. The funding will be used to make Pluang available in more Southeast Asian countries, increase its asset classes and on hiring. . Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. .

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xmatters

JANUARY 12, 2022

Workflows are no stranger in the DevOps world. But where did this term come from, and what does it really mean? Perhaps it’s no surprise that workflows originated from the industrial revolution, which brought powerful machinery for mobilizing huge workforces unlike ever before. To maximize the potential of these new industrial tools, people had to first figure out the best way to use them to get work done as efficiently as possible.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Justworks, a venture-backed software startup focused on the HR market for small and medium-sized businesses, announced earlier today that it would delay its IPO. In a statement to TechCrunch, Justworks said that it “decided to delay its IPO due to market conditions at this time.” An IPO delay is just that, a public debut pushed back. But Justworks’ decision to put its public offering on temporary hiatus comes on the heels of rapid declines in the value of recent technology debu

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CloudZero

JANUARY 12, 2022

Companies migrate to the cloud to become more productive, respond to market changes, and be flexible — while spending less on cloud infrastructure. But there is one thing that many cloud-based organizations have learned: Cloud costs add up. Fast.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: With the H-1B lottery looming, how should we approach overseas hiring?

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Tenable

JANUARY 12, 2022

YouTube Shorts: Stolen TikTok Videos Manipulated in Adult Dating, Dubious Products Scams for Views and Subscribers. Satnam Narang. Wed, 01/12/2022 - 09:00. As Google's TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts gains viewers, hordes of scammers are quick to follow. Background. Over the last several months, YouTube Shorts , Google’s competitor to TikTok, has become a haven for adult-dating scams and the promotion of dubious products.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Venture capitalists went hard in 2021. Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. From dollars invested to deal volume, sectors and geographies posted their strongest performance and excelled on essentially every continent. Today’s startup boom, from a venture capital perspective, is a wide-ranging and incredibly expensive enterprise.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 12, 2022

As organizations progress in their reliability journey, they may build a dedicated team of site reliability engineers. This team can be structured in two major ways: a distributed model, where SREs are embedded in each project team, providing guidance and support for that team; and a centralized model, where one team provides infrastructure and processes for the entire organization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s now 2022 and there are many, many apps out there that allow you to do cardio or build muscle by taking classes inside smartphone apps. We are all familiar with the success of platforms like Peloton (IPO’d), but there are of course new upstarts such as FiiT (raised £9 million) or Fitplan (raised $9.9 million). Plus there is Moxie , where coaches create their own courses.

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