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Choosing the Right Software Testing Metrics

DevOps.com

A software testing metric is a criterion to track the effectiveness of quality assurance efforts. First, you establish success indicators throughout the planning stage. Then, compare them with the received metric after the completion of the process. However, many software QA and test experts tend to focus on how the tests will be executed rather […].

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Java vs.NET Core: Which Technology is Better for Your Software Project?

Radixweb

We grew up hearing that we can’t have too much of a good thing. But when you need to develop a product and struggle to choose the right technology, you might not strongly agree with this old proverb.Developing a successful software requires a lot of planning and brainstorming. Deciding on the right framework is something … Continue reading Java vs.NET Core: Which Technology is Better for Your Software Project?

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Helion raises $2.2B to commercialize fusion energy

TechCrunch

Helion Energy , a clean energy company committed to creating a new era of plentiful, zero-carbon electricity from fusion, today announced the close of its $0.5 billion Series E, with an additional $1.7 billion of commitments tied to specific milestones. The round was led by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator. Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Invest

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Compliance in a DevOps Culture

Martin Fowler

Integrating the necessary security controls and audit capabilities to satisfy compliance requirements within a DevOps culture can capitalize on CI/CD pipeline automation, but presents unique challenges as an organization scales. Understanding the second order implications and unintended consequences caused by the chosen implementation is key to building an effective, secure, and scalable solution.

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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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Leadership Growth – Are You Coachable?

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. It’s no exaggeration to say that if you’re done learning, you’re done leading. The world changes. People grow. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. But that growth is a choice – and one that not every leader will make. I recently spoke with a senior executive who surprised me with her vehemence.

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Kenya’s Twiga raises $50M to scale food solutions across Africa

TechCrunch

Years ago, Americans spent most of their disposable income on food but consistent investment in retail infrastructure has changed that. Now, they only spend 6% of their household income on food and beverages. Africa still battles with this and it is not hard to see why. The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., for instance, costs about $400 in Ken

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Compiled Language vs Interpreted Language

The Crazy Programmer

Language has always been the most effective medium of communication. Good communication is always a bridge from confusion to clarity. Not only humans, each and every element of this nature too have their own language of speech to share their emotions and feelings with the other. At times even a gentle breeze speaks a hundred matters to us. Today in this 21st era, the era of technology, the computers to have languages to communicate with us humans…the programming language.

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The Long Game with Dorie Clark

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind? How can you break out of this endless cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful life that focuses on what matters most – in the long run? In this engaging episode, Dorie Clark gives you unique principles and frameworks to help you reorient yourself, see the big picture, and tap into the power of small changes.

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Game On – November

Agile Alliance

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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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Chipper Cash gets $2B valuation with $150M extension round led by FTX

TechCrunch

Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. The investment comes barely six months after Chipper Cash closed its first Series C round of $100 million, led by SVB Capital , the corporate venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group.

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Difference between Firmware and Operating System (OS)

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will understand the difference between firmware and operating system. Also, we will try to find out some significant differences between these two important terms. Most people consider firmware as the software, but actual firmware is not the software. However, they carry similar features near to the software components. Operating systems are the complete software that coordinates with the other software applications and the hardware components of the devices.

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Why DataOps is Critical for Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Data lies at the heart of all digital transformation. In fact, today, as organizations look to further accelerate their ongoing digital transformation initiatives, companies are looking to extract even more value from their data, to better drive corporate decision-making, help grow the business, improve customer satisfaction and gain a competitive advantage.

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Rethink your DevSecOps: 4 key lessons for achieving security as code

TechBeacon

A survey that the SANS Institute recently conducted of 281 organizations across the world showed that security groups are struggling to keep pace with the rapid pace of change resulting from cloud adoption and the increasing velocity of software delivery.

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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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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

Activeloop , a member of the Y Combinator summer 2018 cohort , is building a database specifically designed for media-focused artificial intelligence applications. Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. Davit Buniatyan, founder and CEO at the company says the company developed out of research he was doing at Princeton where saw the need for a streaming da

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Tracee Runtime Security Series: Centralizing Alerts with Aqua Postee

Aqua Security

A great way to get started with runtime security in your Kubernetes environments is using Tracee, an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux. But as with any alerting and monitoring service, it’s necessary to send alerts to a central point to help operations teams keep track of what’s happening across their environments. Following on from our last post on Tracee’s installation on Kubernetes , once Tracee is up and running, Postee can be used to configure those locations to whic

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5 Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation

DevOps.com

More businesses are turning to DevOps implementations to deliver software and updates with more efficiency. As much as business leaders know DevOps can help them to be faster and more agile, many of them are unsure how to get started. Many businesses even begin implementing DevOps only to run into unforeseen problems that hinder the […]. The post 5 Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Why most machine learning projects stumble

TechBeacon

Despite widespread interest in machine learning (ML), relatively few projects leave the proof-of-concept phase and enter production. In fact, in a 2020 report, Capgemini found that roughly 85% of all ML projects grind to a halt across Capgemini's client organizations—despite successful preliminary models and ample support from executive leaders.

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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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ShipBlu bags $2.4M for its e-commerce and fulfilment service in Egypt

TechCrunch

African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser , Ahmed ElKawass , Abdelrahman Hosny in 2020, operates a delivery and fulfilment model.

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Hybrid Work is Really About Trust

CEO Insider

More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. Yet, when it comes to the decisions that CEOs need to make around […].

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How AI is Changing DevOps for the Better

DevOps.com

Managing a DevOps environment involves a high degree of complexity. The rapid proliferation of data has made it difficult for DevOps teams to effectively onboard, ingest and unlock data and implement information to make good business decisions and deliver delightful experiences. Imagine a team poring over troves of information to identify critical factors that triggered […].

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The Future of SQL: Databases Meet Stream Processing

Confluent

SQL has proven to be an invaluable asset for most software engineers building software applications. Yet, the world as we know it has changed dramatically since SQL was created in […].

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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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BrainCheck brings in another $10M to detect, manage cognitive impairment

TechCrunch

As the world’s population ages, more is being learned about brain health as startups leverage technology to find a way to slow down cognitive impairment. BrainCheck , a Houston- and Austin-based company developing cognitive healthcare software to aid physicians in detecting and managing this type of care, raised $10 million in Series B funding to expand its R&D and go-to-market capabilities as it works on new digital therapeutics for Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

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How to Start an Infrastructure as Code Project

Dzone - DevOps

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been a trend for many years. While some standards are being defined today, we continue to hear about new methods or tools to improve and make our lives easier by automating our daily tasks as much as possible. Fortunately or unfortunately, today, we have the choice between multiple automation tools like Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform, etc, each one having its own benefits and disadvantages.

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DevOps Unbound: DevOps for Low-Code – Friend or Foe?

DevOps.com

Low-code development has become increasingly popular since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Low-code technologies allow organizations to build and customize fully responsive, easy-to-deploy applications with little to no coding. It accelerates digital transformation and empowers citizens developers. In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by […].

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Put more 'Sec' in your DevSecOps

TechBeacon

It wasn't so long ago that the DevOps and cloud deployment models first appeared. Since then, they have raised many questions and challenges for enterprise DevOps, particularly in security.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Lime raises $523M as it prepares to go public

TechCrunch

Shared electric micromobility giant Lime has closed a $523 million raise in convertible debt and term loan financing, money that Lime CEO Wayne Ting says is the next step on the company’s path to going public next year. Lime will use the capital to invest in its decarbonization efforts, refresh a significant portion of its fleet with its Gen4 e-bikes and e-scooters, scale into more cities and develop new technologies that will help win additional city RFPs. “This was a very oversubsc

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How Do You Change a Never-Ending Query?

Confluent

There’s a philosophical puzzle of the Ship of Theseus where throughout a long voyage planks in a ship are individually replaced as they begin to rot. At the end, there […].

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DevSecOps Tech Radar Highlights Diverse Tooling Adoption

DevOps.com

The DevSecOps Technology Radar showcases the opinions cloud-native groups have about DevSecOps tools. To review, The Technology Radar is a periodic report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a burgeoning host for new open source projects that are becoming pivotal underpinnings to cloud-native architecture at large. Just like previous radars, the DevSecOps Technology Radar […].