Experience to Lead
MARCH 17, 2022
When organizations are considering where to invest their budgets, learning and development initiatives have undergone much scrutiny. Senior leaders have relied on the simple metrics of Return of Investment (ROI) to establish a baseline of effectiveness for their investments. They typically think, “If an investment’s ROI is net positive, it is probably worthwhile.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
Instant delivery startup Getir has announced that it has closed a new $768 million Series E founding round. Following this deal, the company has reached a valuation of $11.8 billion. Mubadala Investment Company is leading the founding round with Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Alpha Wave Global, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global also participating. Originally from Turkey, Getir has quickly expanded its service across Europe and the U.S.
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Agile Alliance
MARCH 17, 2022
The processes that have grown up around “Agile” are all capable of being spread too thin, of being understood so poorly that they deliver only mediocre results at best. The post Strawberry Jam with Tasty Lumps first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 17, 2022! We have an absolute mountain of news to climb today, so we’re going to get to work with alacrity. A small reminder before we do that the speaker lineup for our Early Stage event is looking more and more stacked.
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DevOps.com
MARCH 17, 2022
Last year, the Linux kernel turned 30. If you’re someone who’s been immersed in the Linux world since Y2K like I am, it may feel a bit surreal that so much time has passed since the kernel’s inception. As a training architect at A Cloud Guru (ACG), I teach courses about all things Linux and […]. The post Why the Linux Kernel is Still Important appeared first on DevOps.com.
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DevOps.com
MARCH 17, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff. The post CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000 appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
Marcelo Wiermann. Contributor. Marcelo Wiermann leads the global recommendations engineering division at Delivery Hero , one of the world's leading online food ordering and quick commerce companies. Recruiting a winning engineering team can be intimidating, especially for first-time and non-technical founders. I’ve served at multiple startups and established tech companies worldwide, and have hired more than 100 engineers.
CEO Insider
MARCH 17, 2022
In a recent article for CEOWORLD Magazine, I recounted my experience with Warden Exchange. The principals asked me to lead a program that connected the five exemplary practices from The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner with the frameworks from my most recent book, Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
As an interactive storytelling platform, Dorian is building a new way for writers to make money off of their fiction by turning their tales into choose-your-own-adventure mobile games. As users navigate the free-to-play app, they can spend in-app currency to unlock alternative story routes, directly putting a cut of the payment in the author’s pocket.
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.
Aqua Security
MARCH 17, 2022
A newly discovered vulnerability in the container runtime tool CRI-O could allow for attackers who are able to create pods in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster that uses the software, to break out to the underlying cluster node, effectively escalating their privileges. While, as ever, the best way to address this issue is to apply the appropriate security patch, some other measures can be taken to mitigate attacks that exploit this until patches can be deployed.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
Payments — taking and and paying out money — remains a fragmented and complex area for merchants, marketplaces and others that do business with multiple parties online, and as it grows — from $1.5 trillion today to $2.9 trillion by 2030 — that complexity will grow, too. Today, a startup is coming out of stealth with a solution that it believes makes the work of creating, managing, and (when needed) modifying those payment processes easier.
James Shore
MARCH 17, 2022
Buy it now! This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. Visit the Second Edition home page for additional excerpts and more! This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Although you are welcome to share this link, do not distribute or republish the content without James Shore’s express written permission. ??
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data — 2020 and 2021 set nearly every record around the world for private-market investment. The other story that pops up, again and again, is the one noting slim or negative progress in venture capitalists investing in more diverse founders.
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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
MARCH 17, 2022
The rapid pace of modern software delivery and increasing fleet sizes have transformed how organizations see and handle security strategies. Compliance-as-code is required for today’s organizations that need security as a fundamental part of business processes. It is no longer possible to manually manage compliance with dedicated security teams. Balancing security with growing infrastructure needs […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
Meet Amie , a startup working on a brand new productivity app for both individuals and teams. The company is unveiling its app this week and users can sign up to the waitlist. Amie is a well-designed calendar app that helps you get things done and keep up with your team. Amie was founded by Dennis Müller, who previously worked as a product manager for challenger bank N26.
CEO Insider
MARCH 17, 2022
An Ernst & Young survey from late 2021 found a disconnect between employees’ desires for flexible work environments and companies offering such arrangements. It found “79% of companies intend to make moderate to extensive hybrid work changes, but only 40% have communicated their plans to workforce.” The study also noted “90% of employees want flexibility, […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
MeliBio is turning the 9,000-year-old method of honey production on its head, taking out the bee and injecting precision fermentation and plant science. Darko Mandich, a former bee-honey industry executive, and Aaron Schaller, a scientist and amateur chef, started the San Francisco-based company in 2020 with the goal of bringing sustainability to the $10 billion global honey market, which Mandich described as “one of the most unsustainable agricultural sectors with broken supply chain and qualit
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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.
The Daily WTF
MARCH 17, 2022
Due to a chance astrological alignment, two famously alcoholic holidays collided Thursday. Your editor, along with scores of. ecumenicists, atheists, heretics and other drunkards, took the opportunity to get plotzed, plastered, schnockered or fershnikit in every tradition possible. This poor column is the proof. Ruleoneian. Colin has an interest in travel to far-off places, musing. "I wonder what the currency in Rule-6 is." .
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
There’s a new seed fund in town, but with a familiar name. Galion , a collective of tech entrepreneurs who network and learn from each other, is launching an investment arm called Galion.exe. They have already raised €30 million ($33 million at today’s exchange rate) and aim to reach a total fund size of €60 to €80 million ($66 to $88 million). Originally founded in 2015, The Galion Project started as a sort of think tank for the tech community.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 17, 2022
Today's software companies maintain a lot of projects and to keep development and deployment activities keep go on for each team without any friction, CICD comes into the picture. Generally, in software development, we create two separate environments for a product: UAT and Prod. UAT is the deployment setup, which is meant for User acceptance testing and is generally used by alpha testers, developers, product managers, and internal folks of a company.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
Arcol is in the early stages of building a design and documentation tool that runs in your browser. Paul O’Carroll started the company in January 2021 after being inspired by his father, who is an architect, and seeing the frustration he had with the lack of digital tools available to design a building. He recalls watching his father at a desk with pencil and paper, sketching out a building that would begin to come to fruition six months later.
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Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 17, 2022
Successful DevOps Implementation is crucial for organizations looking to scale their business. But, what after you have implemented it successfully? Should you be technologically stagnant? The answer is definitely a “NO.”. Nearly after two decades of DevOps inception, we have access to newer forms of DevOps with enhanced quality and practices. One such form is known as DataOps.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
If you were to accidentally drop the eye sensor developed by Injectsense you’d have little chance of finding it. Ariel Cao, the founder and CEO, admits as much. But once it’s been implanted into the back of your eye, it can remain there, basically immobile for as long as 80 years – all the while transmitting data. Injectsense, a startup founded in 2014, has developed an ocular implant smaller than a grain of rice.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 17, 2022
Our reader poll today asks: Where is your organization in terms of its current employee growth trajectory? We’re in hyper-growth mode and hiring tons of people 11.26% We’re steadily growing at a reasonable pace 36.80% We’re staying even with departures pretty much equaling arrivals 32.47% We’re shrinking slightly 16.88% We’re rapidly reducing our workforce 2.59% Is growth coming?
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
When it comes to data-intensive applications, setting up the infrastructure is expensive and time-consuming. You’re often paying for resources you aren’t using, even in the cloud. That’s where serverless plays best — you only pay for the resources when you’re using them, not when they’re sitting idle. Upstash , an early-stage startup, is building a serverless data platform for developers of data-intensive applications using a consumption-based pricing model, w
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Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 17, 2022
Innovation is critical to driving an organization's growth. Once leaders in their industries, companies like Nokia, Kodak, and Blockbuster failed to innovate and soon lost most market share. Consumers want quicker, better, and more affordable solutions to their problems. You should have systems in place to launch your products in the market as soon as possible — without compromising the quality.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
Kyash , a Tokyo-based mobile financial app, has raised $41.2 million (4.9 billion JPY) Series D funding. . The round comes from a number of investors including Japan Post Investment Corporation, Block (formerly known as Square), Greyhound Capital, SMBC Nikko Securities, Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, StepStone Group, JAFCO Group, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital and others. .
Modus Create
MARCH 17, 2022
A decade ago, businesses saw change as either a threat to avoid or an opportunity to explore. Today, change is just another Tuesday at work. This normalization of change has propelled a fringe IT philosophy into the mainstream. Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives.
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