CloudZero
AUGUST 23, 2021
The market for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to grow exponentially. But more SaaS companies are reporting lower margins these days, despite historically enjoying 60-90% margins on average.
CEO Insider
AUGUST 23, 2021
In March of 2020, CEOs faced the reality of shelter in place orders that required most of their employees to work from home. The initial assumption of many was that the situation might last a few weeks. Today, countless companies are in the same place or in some stage of either mandating that employees come […]. The post The Future of Work: You Don’t Need a Plan.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 26, 2021
Konrad Sanders. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Konrad Sanders is founder, CEO, and content strategist at The Creative Copywriter , a tech-specialist copywriting and content agency. Which terms come to mind when you think about SaaS? “Solutions,” “cutting-edge,” “scalable” and “innovative” are just a sample of the overused jargon lurking around every corner of the techverse, with SaaS marketers the world over seemingly singing from the same hymn boo
Xebia
AUGUST 27, 2021
I am done with the whole shift left storyline. When I started computer science in 1999 the professors stated that a lot of money and failure are spared with a good design. In 2000 the professors told us that starting early with the requirement elicitation would reduce costs. Early was defined as the moment preceding […]. The post The shift left fallacy appeared first on Xebia Blog.
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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.
Martin Fowler
AUGUST 26, 2021
A couple of months ago I announced that I was stepping back from speaking. A few people wondered whether I would still be writing. I did indicate in that article that I am, but I felt it may be worth saying a bit more about what I’m concentrating on these days.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 23, 2021
Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The round, which marks the Fund’s first investment in an African startup, drew participation from existing investors like Sequoia Capital China, Redpoint China, Source Code Capital, and Softbank Ventures Asia.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
Read why Bill Zettler says that data is the future of technology and Palantir Technologies, Inc. is right in the middle of it on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) is one of the more controversial stocks on Seeking Alpha right now with 25 articles being published just in June. Much of the analysis is concentrated […].
TechBeacon
AUGUST 27, 2021
Digital transformation has taken hold in many enterprises, but many chief information security officers (CISOs) remain concerned about the security implications. The emergence of easy-to-use cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes made the shift almost unstoppable, and this year, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated enterprises' digital journeys.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 27, 2021
The world has changed, and so has everything we know about becoming and remaining an effective leader particularly when it comes to keeping your top talent! The effective leaders of tomorrow will do one thing: keep their top talent. In this episode, Dov Baron lays out the strategies for not only keeping your top talent but how to have them become Fiercely Loyal.
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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
TechCrunch
AUGUST 26, 2021
Tuna is on a mission to “fine tune” the payments space in Latin America and has raised two seed rounds totaling $3 million, led by Canary and by Atlantico. Alex Tabor, Paul Ascher and Juan Pascual met each other on the engineering team of Peixe Urbano, a company Tabor co-founded and he referred to as a “Groupon for Brazil.” While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
55% of those surveyed report that data is often stale or out-of-date by the time it is consumed or analyzed. Lack of automation and data security challenges are root causes of the friction, and unless resolved, organizations will struggle to be successful with DataOps and cloud migration. The report also finds privacy, security, and governance challenges […].
DevOps.com
AUGUST 25, 2021
Delivering a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for companies undergoing digital transformation initiatives, as 85% of buyers are willing to pay more for a great customer experience. However, customers aren’t only willing to pay more for a positive experience–they’ll go elsewhere if their experience isn’t positive.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 23, 2021
Calculate ROI For a More Strategic Transition to Remote Teams. Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. But, you know it’s more complicated than that. So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI?
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 23, 2021
Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2 million seed round to scale its operations on the back of leaving the Techstars Toronto accelerator program last month. . Canadian-based VC firm The Xchange led the round, SOSV and Shock Ventures participated, while Techstars Toronto made a follow-on investment. Nigerian firms Argentil Capital Partners and ODBA & Co Ventures took part in the seed round, alongside some angel investors from Canada, other parts of Africa and
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
Nvidia today announced the general availability of AI Enterprise, a software suite of tools and frameworks that enable companies running VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on Nvidia-certified servers. Systems from Atea, Carahsoft, Computacenter, Insight Enterprises, SoftServe, Dell Technologies, and SVA System are now available, featuring a range of Nvidia GPUs including the A100, A30, […].
Aqua Security
AUGUST 24, 2021
A key element in building secure containerized applications is to ensure that the base image that you use is well-maintained and secure. A common piece of advice is to use the Docker Official Images for this purpose. However, our research reveals that you need to be careful when using these images, as some are no longer fully maintained.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 23, 2021
Use This Approach to Gain Respect and the Influence You Need. Of course, leadership is not about being liked. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 22, 2021
Servicing one’s car personally is a time-consuming, expensive and painstaking process. It’s a cycle that can lead to more expensive repairs and safety issues down the line, and no car owner likes that. Egypt and Dubai-based auto tech startup Odiggo is a platform addressing this problem. It allows car owners to get the help they need by finding car services and parts suppliers from providers around them.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
A vast digital mirror world accessible through virtual reality is just around the corner if you believe the latest pronouncements coming out of Silicon Valley. This so-called metaverse has captured the tech zeitgeist and is attracting billions in investments. Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg even announced plans to turn his trillion-dollar social network into […].
David Walsh
AUGUST 23, 2021
Hooks are essential for the functional component pattern in React. One frequent logic comparison with class components was comparing a previous prop value with a current prop value via lifecycle methods. So what’s an easy pattern for duplicating previous value comparisons in functional components? The useRef and useEffect hooks allow us manage that same functionality in functional components via a custom hook — usePrevious : import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'; export function
Confluent
AUGUST 25, 2021
To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath […].
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 27, 2021
Ilyes Kacher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ilyes Kacher is a data scientist at autoRetouch , an AI-powered platform for bulk-editing product images online. I’m a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my home country. Yet I’m writing from an unlikely computer vision hub: Stuttgart, Germany.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
Read Toin Villar take an elaborate look at The Metaverse and how it will operate on Make Use Of : Although some might have heard the term “metaverse” only recently, it’s been in use for a couple of decades. It was first used in the 1990s in a work of fiction, and it usually describes […].
DevOps.com
AUGUST 23, 2021
Even as technology continues to move into the cloud, a simultaneous shift is already underway in the opposite direction as computing increasingly moves to the edge. One key reason: by 2025, the number of connected devices in use is expected to exceed 56 billion units, according to IDC. Edge computing is not a successor to […]. The post Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity appeared first on DevOps.com.
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 21, 2021
DevOps has become the latest IT buzzword. Although DevOps has yet to be established, it is transforming the IT industry. The DevOps engineer career path offers a bright future. DevOps can be described as a practice or a philosophy that combines software development and infrastructure operations or at least reduces the difference between them. According to an article on gartner.com, by 2022, Gartner anticipates 75% of DevOps projects to fail to meet expectations, citing organizational lack of kno
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 25, 2021
Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. After all, the food and restaurant industry was deemed essential amid global shutdowns, but finding kitchen staff proved a problem for many, especially early on when questions remained around COVID’s transmission. This week, California-based fast casual salad chain Sweetgreen announced plans to go all in on automation with the acquisition of Spyce.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
In an effort to help Ethereum scale, The Graph will be providing market-leading indexing and querying services to new developers building on the Optimistic Ethereum Layer 2. This represents another significant integration for The Graph (GRT) project, as it continues to add new chains to its hosted services. In anticipation of the public launch, developers building […].
Altexsoft
AUGUST 25, 2021
Humans have been trying to make machines chat for decades. Alan Turing considered computers’ ability to generate natural speech a proof of their ability to think. Today, we converse with virtual companions all the time. But despite years of research and innovation, their unnatural responses remind us that no, we’re not yet at the HAL 9000-level of speech sophistication.
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