Mon.Apr 11, 2022

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The process to solving anything

Agile Alliance

How would you like to crack the code of learning how to solve anything? Yes that's right, anything! Bold claim but this talk is using core solution focused coaching techniques and the art of co-creation, The post The process to solving anything first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Tive, a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raises $54M

TechCrunch

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. Census survey reporting that they’ve experienced delays with domestic suppliers.

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The Truth About Agile Coaching – A Candid Conversation with Business Leaders

Agile Alliance

Agile Coaches are often promoted as the only route to success when pursuing an agile career or attempting an agile transformation. Coaches can provide objective insight and develop new strategies for organizational success. The post The Truth About Agile Coaching – A Candid Conversation with Business Leaders first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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3 reasons why you should be at TC Early Stage this week

TechCrunch

It’s almost go-time for all you early-stage startup founders! That’s right, on April 14 hundreds of determined entrepreneurs around the world will gather in San Francisco for the best little founder summit we like to call TechCrunch Early Stage. Spend your day focused on learning the bottom-line essentials to build and scale your startup — the right way.

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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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The Secret to Leading Change

Agile Alliance

Are you a leader embarking on deep cultural change? Do you feel like the harder you push the more your teams feel change is something to be feared and avoided; that it is the killer of projects and companies? The post The Secret to Leading Change first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Retaining Talent as the Developer Role Evolves

DevOps.com

Traditional development roles are rapidly evolving due to increased remote work and the Great Resignation. Company leadership must also adapt to retain that talent and ensure the success of their dev teams. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a record 4.5 million Americans voluntarily left their jobs in November 2021—and in December 2021, CompTIA’s […].

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Terradepth raises another $20 million to map the ocean floor with robots

TechCrunch

At last count, roughly 20% of the ocean floor has been mapped. The remaining portion adds up to around double the surface area of Mars. A number of firms out there are working to improve what we know about a largely un-explored portion of our planet, and in recent years initiatives like the XPrize have been pushing young upstarts to take part. There are myriad reasons for doing so, from studying biodiversity to laying underground cable.

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AI Impact Statements – Empathy, Imperfection, and Responsibility

DataRobot

If you follow the media stories about AI , you will see two schools of thought. One school is utopian, proclaiming the amazing power of AI, from predicting quantum electron paths to driving a race car like a champion. The other school is dystopian, scaring us with crisis-ridden stories that range from how AI could bring about the end of privacy to self-driving cars that almost immediately crash.

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PayMaya owner Voyager Innovations raises $210M at a valuation of $1.4B

TechCrunch

Voyager Innovations , the owner of Philippines’ payment and financial services app PayMaya and neobank Maya Bank, announced today it has raised $210 million, bringing its valuation to $1.4 billion. The round was led by SIG Venture Capital, and included participation from EDBI and First Pacific Company, as well as returning shareholders PLDT, KKR, Tencent, International Finance Corporation and IFC Emerging Asia Fund and IFC Financial Institutions Growth Fund. .

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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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How Augmented Analytics Can Help Businesses?

Daffodil Software

In today's competitive business landscape, success is directly affected by the accuracy that goes into your decision-making process. The best business decisions are driven by data aggregated from a vast array of white papers, market research reports, surveys, and domain experience. Augmented analytics is a leading data analytics subdomain emerging in the current market.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. Investors include CCB Trust, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, GGV Capital and real-time communication solution provider Agora, a long-time partner of Cocos.

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Atlassian Expands DevOps Tools Portfolio to Improve Collaboration

DevOps.com

Atlassian has added an extensible catalog for tracking software components, dubbed Compass, to its portfolio of DevOps tools along with an Atlassian Data Lake and Atlassian Analytics cloud service that makes it simpler to aggregate and query data collected from the company’s portfolio of tools. In addition, Atlassian is making its Atlas collaboration framework—formerly known […].

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Branch carves out new furniture collection as folks return to the office

TechCrunch

Branch , a New York-based office furniture company, spent the past two years focused on outfitting everyone’s work-from-home digs with its core products. Now it is ready to launch some new products, including some for those returning to their office away from home. The company was launched in 2019 by Greg Hayes, Sib Mahapatra and Verity Sylvester so that people could purchase premium furniture without having to go through a dealer, saving on average 50% over buying from traditional retailers, Ha

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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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How Continuous Integration Plays a Crucial Role In Business Agility

Dzone - DevOps

There Was a Lot of Hype About Business Agility. Unfortunately, Agility in business became one of the most hackneyed topics in IT. The main message was "Agility is Cool," and makes business flexible, reducing time to market. It's true. Why then do I raise this subject once again? Well, to show practical aspects and explain why continuous integration plays such an important role.

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The Kindbody TC-1

TechCrunch

It’s telling of our maturity as a society that infertility is a concept approached rarely with anything but awkwardness and uncertainty. The ability to have children is integral to our society, but when someone faces infertility, support systems can prove scarce, fertility services can make patients feel adrift, mental health support is rare, patient education is abysmal and costs are obfuscated; the list goes on and on.

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Corporate America’s Biggest Inefficiency

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Emotions are the core of all human beings but not managing them properly might be what is keeping your team from achieving the most efficiency in their day. Today’s post is by Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS instructor. How much time is strong emotion wasting in your office? You know the routine: someone says something in a meeting, someone else flies off the handle.

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Perforce adds infrastructure automation tooling with Puppet acquisition

TechCrunch

Perforce Software has been building developer tools since 1995, a long time in the tech world. The company was acquired by Clearlake Capital in 2018 , and over the last several years has been modernizing and expanding its reach through acquisition. Today, the company announced it intends to acquire Puppet , the infrastructure automation company. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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3 Cloud Trends You Should Actually Follow In 2022

CloudZero

When your organization uses the cutting edge of technology to function, you may feel like it takes all your time and energy to stay on top of emerging trends.

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Daily Crunch: FDA clears Fitbit algorithm that passively scans for signs of AFib

TechCrunch

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. Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Monday, April 11, 2022! Today was the day that Elon Musk surprised us by saying he was not joining Twitter’s board , though at this point I think it is more of a “shame on me” as we should stop being surprised by anything he does.

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Why are we still overloaded with meetings when we know they don’t work?

CEO Insider

Do you know how many of your leaders are getting up at 4am in order to ‘get their work done’ before the day’s meeting frenzy begins? It’s likely to be more than you think. Or perhaps not – perhaps you’re also trying this tactic to get on top of your meeting overload? This is an […]. The post Why are we still overloaded with meetings when we know they don’t work?

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Demo at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022, where tremendous value meets huge opportunities

TechCrunch

Pssst. Lean in and learn about one of the most value-packed ways to experience TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 , our annual deep-dive focused on the rapidly evolving world of transportation technology and early-stage startups. . This summit takes place in person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California, and it includes a bonus online day on May 20. Three days packed with possibilities, and early-stage founders can wring every ounce of opportunity out of them with an Early-Stage Startup Demo Package.

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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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#Clouderalife Volunteer Spotlight: Dániel Omaisz-Takács

Cloudera

April 11 is “Inter” National Pet Day, a day dedicated to celebrating the pets and animals in our lives and communities. . While Pet Day is the perfect moment to show some extra love to the pets in our lives – Cloudera wants to take this opportunity to also recognize a Cloudera volunteer who goes above and beyond to care for the welfare and health of animals outside of his family – Dániel Omaisz-Takács.

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Why focusing on holistic care helped Kindbody triple its revenue in 2021

TechCrunch

One story from The Verge referred to Kindbody as the “SoulCycle” of fertility, pointing out that it sells fertility services and “empowerment” to 25-year-olds. It’s kind of a stretch, but I can see how the company could be compared to the aesthetic-driven facade of The Wing. Kindbody isn’t solely selling a dream of belonging, however — there is a large focus on the consumerism of patient care.

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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: Stored XSS in Directus

Synopsys

CVE-2022-24814 is a stored XSS vulnerability that can lead to account compromise in the admin application of Directus. The post CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: Stored XSS in Directus appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Windmill wants to drag window AC units, kicking and screaming, into 2022

TechCrunch

It’s hard to think of a product category that is less sexy than window air conditioning units. Windmill begs to differ, bringing a breath of fresh air to an industry that’s been steadfastly clunking away in the corner. The company raised $10 million to make the ubiquitous AC easier to install, smarter and gentler on the environment. “Back in 2018, I was moving house, to a new apartment in Manhattan.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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It’s the ROI that Matters when Migrating to the Cloud

Teradata

Agility & innovation are the primary benefits enabled by a move to the cloud, but the initial focus is often on reducing the total cost of ownership. But this is only the first stage!

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Did we learn anything from the Elon-Twitter brouhaha?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. This week was Big Tech heavy, as the startup market had a slow start to the week. Sign of the times or one-day fluke?

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Demand Forecasting: The Spyglass to Optimize Your Business Operations

Dataiku

The performance that supermarkets are able to manage and pull off every year, all year round, is quite remarkable. With customers that come in and out every day to purchase very different items, shelves get emptied at random rates, but a magical wand seems to almost always restock them on time. Certain items like butter or paper towels should follow a very constant demand over time, but many other products can vary drastically from week to week.