CIO
APRIL 27, 2023
The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. But as the use cases began to take shape last year, the company began pushing AI-driven semantic search. With the rise of LLMs in the public consciousness, companies are beginning to see the value of vector databases even more. Investors apparently agree.
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CIO
APRIL 27, 2023
At this time of dynamic business and market changes, uncertainty, and quickly evolving consumption models for IT infrastructure, every IT executive understands the benefits and necessity of network agility. Agile networks can respond quickly to changes in the market, customer demands, employee requirements, and technology advances. Yet most businesses haven’t tapped into two major capabilities of truly agile distributed networks: scale and automation.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
In her presentation at last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston, SOSV general partner Pae Wu tossed out the tongue-in-cheek phrase “recovering academic” to describe founders in the firm’s IndieBio program. It’s a fitting label, given many founders in the program are academics, and their journey from academia to accelerator has its share of growing pains as they often have to adapt to the business world without a business degree.
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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.
CIO
APRIL 27, 2023
Technical debt is no longer just a “technical” problem. As recent, widely publicized events have shown, it is a business problem that can have serious consequences for organizations. The government and Congress are taking notice of unfair consumer experiences, and it is crucial for businesses to address their technical debt and minimize the risk of negative press, government fines, and damaged reputations.
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CIO
APRIL 27, 2023
John Meister is the senior vice president and CIO of Panera Bread, a chain of bakery-cafe fast casual restaurants with more than 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada. Over the past decade at Panera, Meister has been instrumental in driving Panera’s customer digital experience initiatives and building an innovative IT culture that continues to stay ahead of fast changes in the marketplace.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States.
DevOps.com
APRIL 27, 2023
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble. The post Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
More than 10,000 people from across the country and around the world will converge on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21. A startup crowd that size has a wide range of roles, interests and budgets, and we’re proud to offer six different pass types — plus a group option — to meet those diverse needs. Pick the perfect pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Let’s break it down so you know exactly which pass type suits your specific circumstances.
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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
Netflix Tech
APRIL 27, 2023
Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases. Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Careerist claims it closed an $8 million round of funding with a tight 12-slide deck and gave us a lot to learn from in the process. Not all in good ways, but I’m getting slightly ahead of myself. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. Slides in this deck The team submitted this slide deck with the note that it was submitted exactly as it pitched it to the investors.
DevOps.com
APRIL 27, 2023
Device42 today made available a power and CO2 Summary Dashboard to its agentless platform that employs machine learning algorithms to discover and track IT assets. Raj Jalan, Device42 CEO, said the dashboard makes it possible for IT teams to combine the tracking of assets and associated dependencies with a capability that enables them to reduce […] The post Device42 Brings Power and Carbon Emission Tracking to IT Asset Management appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Easyship , the New York- and Singapore-based startup that enables e-commerce sellers to integrate with more than 250 courier services, announced today it has expanded its partnership with eBay to support eBay International Shipping, a newly-launched program. This means that buyers can now access more regional and express shipping solutions for international destinations through eBay’s platform.
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 27, 2023
ClickUp is adding templates and collaboration tools to make it easier to access generative artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT from within its project management application. Haris Butt, head of product design for ClickUp, said ClickUp AI now includes pre-built department-specific prompts that any product managers, developers or designers can easily access rather than having […] The post ClickUp Adds Project Management Templates to Invoke ChatGPT appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Luca , a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Y Combinator (Luca was in Y Combinator’s winter 2023 class), Soma Capital and angel investors. Luca was co-founded by Tanvi Surti and Yonah Mann, who worked together on Uber’s dynamic pricing team.
CEO Insider
APRIL 27, 2023
Transitioning from being an employee to a digital entrepreneur can be a life-changing decision. The internet has opened up new avenues for entrepreneurs, allowing them to reach a global audience and create successful businesses from anywhere in the world. According to a report by Mordor Intelligence, the global digital entrepreneurship market is expected to grow […] The post 7 steps to transition from employee to digital entrepreneur appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google , Amazon , Microsoft , Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script , citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultuo
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 27, 2023
Codenotary today made available a preview of a centralized repository service for generating and storing software bills of materials (SBOMs) that makes it simpler to securely share them as necessary. Moshe Bar, Codenotary CEO, said SBOMCenter will make it easier for organizations to operationalize SBOMs that are being created with greater frequency as the need […] The post Codenotary Previews Secure SBOM Creation Service appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Chief , a professional network designed for women in leadership, has cut 14% of staff, or 43 jobs today, saying in an email seen by TechCrunch that the move is a response to the economy and that the outfit is restructuring to further focus on member experience. The layoff largely hit Chief’s U.S. employees as the business’s newly launched U.K. presence is smaller.
Synopsys
APRIL 27, 2023
CISA’s draft self-attestation form, published today, is a step in the right direction in demystifying EO 14028 compliance.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Thursday is here — how in the world did that happen? Those days, they just keep on coming. If you’re still on the fence about whether you want to come along to Disrupt, we’ve got you covered: There’s a Disrupt pass for every role and budget.
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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.
Tandem
APRIL 27, 2023
Tandem was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in two categories in The 21st Annual American Business Awards®. Within the App & Mobile Website awards categories, Tandem was honored in Best User Experience and Business/Government. The awards recognize Tandem’s work to modernize the U.S. Department of Defense’s legacy application MIRS, or the MEPCOM (Military Entrance Processing Command) Integrated Resource System.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2023
Italian climate startup Energy Dome , which has developed a “CO 2 Battery” for storing renewable energy, has closed a €40 million (~$44M) Series B round — bringing the total raised for its novel energy storage solution to €54M (or just shy of $60M). The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate VC arm of Italian energy giant Eni; along with Neva SGR, the VC company owned by European banking group Intesa Sanpaolo.
Daffodil Software
APRIL 27, 2023
Ever since the intense scrutiny faced by organizations that developed COVID vaccines, pharmacovigilance has become a hotly discussed area of interest. The practice of pharmacovigilance basically aims to reduce the entry of drugs with adverse side effects into regular circulation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been permeating this field in recent years due to the immense potential for automated pharmaceutical discovery that it offers.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 27, 2023
Using WireMock for integration testing of Spring -based (micro)services can be hugely valuable. However, usually, it requires significant effort to write and maintain the stubs needed for WireMock to take a real service’s place in tests. What if generating WireMock stubs was as easy as adding @GenerateWireMockStub to your controller?
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“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.
David Walsh
APRIL 27, 2023
The CSS language is full of small gaps which are frustrating to navigate. Between CSS properties to hide a container and its contents, there is still room for improvement. visibility: hidden keeps height and width integrity while display: none on a container hides everything. You can use.container > * to hide all contents of a container, but what if there was a better way?
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
APRIL 27, 2023
Our reader poll today asks: Which of these approaches best describes how you develop your people? I’m a coach: I guide them to coming up with their own answers 37.44% I’m a mentor: I share my experiences so they can learn from them 37.44% I’m a trainer: I walk them through skills step by step to help them grow 14.78% I’m a manager: I tell them the task and standards and correct as needed 7.39% I don’t use any of these approaches 2.95% Coaches and Mentors First.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 27, 2023
As the digital age progresses, the need for efficient and secure data governance practices becomes more crucial than ever. This article delves into the concept of User Data Governance and its implementation using serverless streaming. We will explore the benefits of using serverless streaming for processing user data and how it can lead to improved data governance and increased privacy protection.
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