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Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

TechCrunch

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. In tight economies, organizations feel the pressure to shift software development efforts to initiatives that’ll move the needle for business.

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Frontend Debugging Is Bad and it Should Feel Bad

Honeycomb

There’s a sentence that strikes fear into the heart of every frontend developer I’ve ever met: Users are reporting issues, and we don’t know how to replicate them. If they have bugs or poor usability, all the business outcomes we’re working to enable suffer. How do I improve poor CWV scores? Do you cry?

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Common cloud exploitation outcomes Unauthorized Access: Attackers may attempt to gain unauthorized access to cloud accounts, systems, or data by exploiting weak or stolen credentials, misconfigurations, or vulnerabilities in the cloud environment. These web application vulnerabilities can stem from codebases that use open-source code.

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

TechCrunch

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. I think we can all do a better job,” author and developer marketing expert Adam DuVander says. DuVander was recommended to us by Karl Hughes, the CEO of Draft.dev, which specializes in content production for developer-focused companies.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed streaming platform for messaging, storing, processing, and integrating large data volumes in real time. Plus the name sounded cool for an open-source project.”. With these basic concepts in mind, we can proceed to the explanation of Kafka’s strengths and weaknesses.

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The Good and the Bad of Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Altexsoft

Designed to handle big data, the platform addresses problems associated with data lakes — such as lack of data integrity , poor data quality, and low performance compared to data warehouses. Besides that, its native integration with MLflow , an open-source tool for building machine learning pipelines in production, backs MLOps initiatives.