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Quantum Metric raises $200M, now valued at over $1B, for its digital product design platform

TechCrunch

Quantum Metric , which provides a cloud-based service both to build digital products and then test and fix them in real time to improve how they work, sold by the company as Continuous Digital Product Design, has picked up $200 million in funding, a Series B round that values the company at more than $1 billion.

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How Reliable Is Cable Internet? Here’s How Our Networks Are Performing

CableLabs

Starting in mid-March, the world experienced a sudden surge in internet usage driven by the widespread COVID-19 stay-at-home orders that caused many of us to switch to working and studying at home in a matter of days. Cable broadband networks not only withstood this sudden surge in internet usage; they excelled. percent of U.S.

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Metrics for improved Docker container management and performance

CircleCI

We started investigating how to produce metrics for each of the three phases: download, extract, and create. After much contemplation of the message stream, we discovered that by aggregating the time and data transferred across each of the layers and download / extract phases, we could produce fairly accurate performance metrics.

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‘AWS for blockchain’ Alchemy boosts valuation to $3.5B with $250M raise

TechCrunch

For the unacquainted, Web3 refers to a set of protocols led by blockchain, that intends to reinvent how the Internet is wired in the backend). Put simply, Alchemy wants to do for blockchain and Web3 what AWS (Amazon Web Services) did for the internet. ?? In June, the firm revealed its $2.2

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Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms

Honeycomb

Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. There is a level of modern system complexity where relying on metric collection spirals into cost inefficiency. It turns out, yes. Each new host, pod, node, or service adds to the bill.

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Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms

Honeycomb

Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. There is a level of modern system complexity where relying on metric collection spirals into cost inefficiency. It turns out, yes. Each new host, pod, node, or service adds to the bill.

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Boost conversion rates and sales with behavior science

Agile Engine

Internet companies pour millions of dollars into behavior research to design digital experiences that prompt users to purchase faster or spend more time in apps. As a result, the buyer is more comfortable choosing Option B, which was the more costly of the two in the initial comparison.

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