Martin Fowler
JANUARY 26, 2021
Tim finishes his article by looking at how highly effective organizations design their engineering organization to optimize for effectiveness and feedback loops. He illustrates what this looks like by the example of Etsy, who actively measures their ability to put valuable products into production quickly and safely, adjusting their technical investments to fix any blockers or slowness. more….
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Rami Essaid. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rami Essaid is co-founder and CEO at Finmark , a technology company that provides financial planning and modeling software for startups. He previously was co-founder and CEO at Distil Networks, a bot attack mitigation company acquired by Imperva. More posts by this contributor. Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation.
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Martin Fowler
JANUARY 26, 2021
Clients send requests to servers but might not get a response. It's impossible for clients to know if the response was lost or the server crashed before processing the request. To make sure that the request is processed, the client has to re-send the request. If the server had already processed the request and crashed after that, servers will get duplicate requests when the client retries. more….
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
In 2019, female-led companies received less than 5 percent of the global venture capital. Bringing it to Africa, only 10 percent of the West African startups that cumulatively raised $1 million had at least one female co-founder in the past decade. There are many stats to back up the underrepresentation of women in starting a company, raising money and general involvement in technology where the global tech workforce comprises 28.8% women.
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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.
The Crazy Programmer
JANUARY 26, 2021
Streaming services and streaming various contents is now a crucial part of life. So how can you get a piece of the action? Here we are going to show you things to put in place before building your streaming app. Although streaming is synonymous with movie and music content, this is not the only option for streaming. There are diverse ways where streaming would help boost the business, such as movies, yoga, education, cooking services, and many more.
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Agile Alliance
JANUARY 26, 2021
Our world became topsy-turvy because of the COVID pandemic. Agile Coach Camp Worldwide (ACC-WW) was no exception. ACC-WW is normally held the weekend prior to the Agile20xx conference. With Agile2020 being cancelled due to the pandemic, we had to transition to being a remote event (or face cancellation ourselves). The onsite team for Orlando had … Continued.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
eFounders is expanding its focus by creating a second startup studio called Logic Founders. This time, Logic Founders is going to focus on fintech startups exclusively. Camille Tyan (pictured above) is going to lead the new studio. Over the past ten years, eFounders has launched dozens of software-as-a-service companies trying to improve the way we work.
The Parallax
JANUARY 26, 2021
Typos have a long history, by turns serious and silly , going back to the dawn of the printed page. But thanks to the peculiarities of computer technology and the ingenuity of hackers, correctly typing website locations into your browser is no guarantee that they will show you the site you intended to view. When machines make typos, after correct human input, the errors can lead to an unusual form of cyberattack known as bitsquatting.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Stacker , a company that helps non-developers create software from spreadsheets, announced that it has raised $1.7 million in a seed round. Stacker fits inside the growing no-code, and low-code niche that TechCrunch has explored at length over the last year. But its approach to the topic is worth examining, as is its new funding round. According to Stacker CEO Michael Skelly, the idea for his company came from his time at an asset management company where he had helped build internal apps using
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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.
The Parallax
JANUARY 26, 2021
Typos have a long history, by turns serious and silly , going back to the dawn of the printed page. But thanks to the peculiarities of computer technology and the ingenuity of hackers, correctly typing website locations into your browser is no guarantee that they will show you the site you intended to view. When machines make typos, after correct human input, the errors can lead to an unusual form of cyberattack known as bitsquatting.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Bloomreach , an API company that helps eCommerce customers with search and web site creation, announced a $150 million investment today from Sixth Street Growth. Today’s funding values the company at $900 million. At the same time, the company announced it has acquired Exponea , a startup that gives Bloomreach a marketing automation component it had been missing.
Confluent
JANUARY 26, 2021
Today, I am thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Microsoft to enable a seamless, integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform. This represents a significant milestone […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Streaming data is not new. Kafka has existed as an open source tool for a decade. Vectorized was founded on the premise that the existing tools were too complex and not designed for today’s streaming requirements. Today the company released its first product, Redpanda , an open source tool designed to make it easier for developers to build streaming data applications.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 26, 2021
In response to market and competitive forces, many companies are using DevSecOps to develop higher quality and more secure software. Whether that software is their own product or is a component of their product, quality – and especially security – have become required rather than optional. To accommodate the security requirements, some companies have adopted […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Run:AI , a Tel Aviv-based company that helps businesses orchestrate and optimize their AI compute infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round. The new round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors TLV Partners and S Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to date to $43 million.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 26, 2021
Almost half of all people now have an Android or iOS phone that has the compute power of a desktop PC. That means developers have an opportunity to build increasingly sophisticated apps—which is why you need to use progressive web apps, or PWAs.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
This morning Fast , a startup that provides online checkout and identity products, announced that it has closed a $102 million Series B. The new funding event was led by Stripe, a previous investor in Fast. Stripe, an online payments giant, also led Fast’s Series A last year, a deal worth $20 million. Fast has raised $124 million to date, it said in a release.
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TechBeacon
JANUARY 26, 2021
Open-source software components have become essential to developers around the world—and that popularity made them a hacker magnet.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
If you’re working for a company that handles a ton of data, chances are your company is constantly moving data from applications, APIs and databases and sending it to a data warehouse or a data lake. There are a few well-known platforms to extract, load and transform data, such as Fivetran and Stitchdata. Airbyte is building an open-source data pipeline platform.
Dataiku
JANUARY 26, 2021
Only 45% of manufacturers can access and analyze data from across their value chain, according to Capgemini’s Smart Factories at Scale report. While manufacturing plants are inundated with a myriad of data sources (sensors, machine logs, equipment usage historical data, and building or warehouse management systems, for example), there’s a disparity between having that data and having the capabilities to act upon the data to make a more sophisticated manufacturing plant.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Many people want to develop better screen-time habits, but don’t have a good set of tools to do so. A new startup, Opal , aims to help. The company, now backed by $4.3 million in seed funding, has developed a digital well-being assistant for iOS that allows you to block distracting websites and apps, set schedules around app usage, lock down apps for stricter and more focused quiet periods, and more.
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Coding Dojo
JANUARY 26, 2021
Pre-Dojo : Worked as a math teacher and high/middle-school Principal. Had fears of changing careers in her late 30s. Was. … Read more >>. The post From High School Principal to High-Paid Programmer | How Chicago Alumna Alyssa Nickow Transformed Her Life & Career appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Years ago, Uber had a problem. With millions of users and tens of thousands of drivers scattered across a widening expanse of the globe, the fast-growing mobility startup wanted to display more accurate maps to users about where their ride was coming from and where it was intending to go to reach its destination. The challenge is that geospatial datasets can easily reach into the petabytes, so how do you transmit and visualize such data — particularly on mobile?
Experience to Lead
JANUARY 26, 2021
What is Adaptive Leadership? As we enter 2021, COVID-19 continues to impact our lives and businesses. Companies need to brace for change and uncertainty. Adaptive leadership is an emerging model of leadership that embraces change, experimentation and innovation. The goal is for companies to enable individuals to handle challenges and adapt to an evolving environment. [.].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
CrediBook , a startup that helps Indonesian retail wholesalers digitize the financial side of their operations, has raised $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding led by Wavemaker Partners, with participation from Alpha JWC Ventures and Insignia Ventures Partners. The capital will be used for product launches and expansion into more Indonesian cities. Founded in February 2020, CrediBook is part of a wave of startups focused on digitizing small- to medium-sized businesses in Indonesia.
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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.
CTOvision
JANUARY 26, 2021
I just read a great collection of articles on the role of technology in national security (focused on Special Operations Forces). This book, titled Strategic Latency Unleashed: The Role of […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Building a startup is never easy, especially when you’re in the early innings and navigating a huge learning curve. Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. Find all that — and connect with your early-founder community — at TC Early Stage 2021. We’re hosting two of these virtual bootcamps designed for early-stage startup founders and open to investors, later-stage founders and other startup enthusiasts.
Sunflower Lab
JANUARY 26, 2021
Regina Fox Regina Fox is a writer and editor with a passion for music, books, and technology that makes daily life just a little bit easier (she'd quite literally be nowhere without her phone GPS). 3 Questions To Ask A Software Development Company. Welcome to your software development journey! We’re your host, Sunflower Lab, and we’re here to help you make the right decision when it comes to choosing a development partner!
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