Fri.Feb 11, 2022

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Agot AI gives restaurants computer vision to see where food orders go wrong

TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence has infiltrated a number of industries, and the restaurant industry was one of the latest to embrace this technology, driven in main part by the global pandemic and the need to shift to online orders. That need continues to grow. In 2021, some 60% of Americans ordered takeout or delivery at least once a week, and 31% used a third-party delivery service.

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Winning the Concept to Cash Game with Feature Teams

Agile Alliance

Transforming a large organization to Agile is messy work and requires changes in organizational structure as well as mindset. On one hand we argue for a “bottom’s up“ approach requiring team self-organization; yet on the other hand, we talk about how organizational buy-in is necessary to achieve our (Shu-Ha-Ri) Ri-state nirvana. The reality is that … Continued.

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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

TechCrunch

RedRoute , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating.

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How Programming Teams are Making Remote Work Functional

The Crazy Programmer

The world of work post-pandemic has shaken up offices across the globe, moving people out of their normal workspaces and into their homes. This caused a lot of disruption for a number of companies, but more so for the programming teams that are so used to working in close proximity to each other daily. Being pushed to isolate or just work remotely has made it difficult for teams to use the typical methods of teamwork that they would normally.

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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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Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now?

TechCrunch

In the world of cybersecurity, you can’t secure something if you don’t know it’s there. Enter cybersecurity asset management, an admittedly unsexy fragment of the booming industry that investors have shown an ever-increasing appetite for over the past 18 months. The cybersecurity industry experienced what is being hailed by some as a “golden year” — funding for cyber startups climbed by 138% to $29.5 billion in 2021 and M&A activity skyrocketed by more than 294% to $77.5 billion.

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Why Affirm’s stock is getting hit, and what the selloff means for the BNPL startup market

TechCrunch

The number of startups building buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is long. Just this year we’ve seen French BNPL startup Alma raise a $130 million equity round , BillEase raise $11 million for BNPL in the Philippines , Lipa Later raise $12 million for the same effort in Kenya , and ThankUCash raise $5.3 million for fintech infra in Africa that appears to include BNPL services.

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The Evolving Role of Manager in Agile Environment

Agile Alliance

As organizations adopt Agile, they are faced with few challenges. One of the issues that they face early on, is re-defining some of the traditional roles, like that of a people manager. We have lived through an agile adoption journey and have taken active roles in shaping the roles and responsibilities of people managers in … Continued. The post The Evolving Role of Manager in Agile Environment first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Startups are evolving to manage growth alongside profitability

TechCrunch

Amit Anand. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. More posts by this contributor. Predicting the next wave of Southeast Asia tech giants. It was only a matter of time. As more tech companies go public, the necessary disclosure has meant that with access to more information on the financial condition of many startups, mainstream investors have begun questio

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Coaching & Storytelling – Stories that we like to listen

Agile Alliance

We all remember stories told to us as kids. Some inspired us to build our own world of imagination. Stories are such a powerful and effective tool to convey a message. As Agile Coaches we get opportunities to be part of so many stories that we can use, to share with others. This can then … Continued. The post Coaching & Storytelling – Stories that we like to listen first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Chasing Cruise and Waymo, Chinese AV company AutoX plans to begin testing in San Francisco

TechCrunch

AutoX, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company that has made plays in both the U.S. and its home country, is now making a move into San Francisco, an area where its biggest competitors are creeping towards commercialization. The company, which has been testing its vehicles in the greater San Jose area since 2016, shared plans to launch robotaxi operations and build an operations center in the Golden City.

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Coaching Exploratory Testing

Agile Alliance

Coaching agile teams comes with many challenges - often centered around delivery. Agile doesn't have room for manual testing - or at least you're going to hear that from some agile team members! There's a widespread misconception that manual testing is waste. As a result, tester team members often feel increased scrutiny during an agile … Continued.

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How much is a pitch deck really worth?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We had the full crew aboard today for our live taping, headed by our killer production team Grace and Chris , and hosting crew Mary Ann , Natasha and Alex. Overall, it was a success? Our streaming tech took us to various Internet platforms, and people came to Hopin and asked questions.

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Confessions of a Sprint 0

Agile Alliance

How do we start sprinting effectively? For those of us practicing Scrum, there is great focus on the cycle of sprinting and continuous improvement. How the journey progresses regarding deliverable increments and continuous improvement is an experience many of us share. However, how we start a new team delivering quality software every iteration is something … Continued.

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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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Daily Crunch: At SpaceX’s Starship update event, Musk offers updates on plans, progress

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 11, 2022! Today we’re talking big rockets, self-driving cars, tech stocks getting rekt, and more. It’s a fun, and good mix of news. Enjoy! – Alex. The TechCrunch Top 3. Rocketship, or big vapor phallus ? At an event about SpaceX’s huge Starship launch system, more questions were left open than closed off, it appears.

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8 Best (FREE) Web Development Courses for Beginners

Coding Dojo

Perhaps one of the most exciting prospects about entering a field like web development is the ability to simply get … Read more >>. The post 8 Best (FREE) Web Development Courses for Beginners appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Investor warning signs, China’s AV frenzy, 2022 insurtech trends

TechCrunch

February 2014 seems so long ago. Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox shut down after it was hacked, the Nokia X was unveiled at Mobile World Congress, and Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server & Tools division, was promoted to the CEO spot, replacing Steve Ballmer. To mark the eighth anniversary of Nadella’s ascension, enterprise reporter Ron Miller looked back at the executive’s tenure to grade his performance and identify potential pitfalls that lie ahead.

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Irreconcilable Differences: DevOps Grapples With Issues

DevOps.com

DevOps issues can be a thorny subject. The coming together in harmony of Dev (developer) and Ops (operations) represents an arranged marriage of sorts that, for some, will never have a ‘happily ever after’ ending as both parties ultimately grapple with irreconcilable differences. But despite the naysayers, the very existence of DevOps as a portmanteau […].

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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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Three Ways to Improve your Customer Experience by Reducing Friction

CEO Insider

And how your security process may be driving customers away. It’s a common scenario these days: Your customer is returning to take advantage of your spring offers, so they go to log in, but they can’t get in right away. Your site or mobile app now requires them to verify themselves—even though they’ve been a […]. The post Three Ways to Improve your Customer Experience by Reducing Friction appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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SecOps and XDR: Why trusted digital operations centers are essential

TechBeacon

Security operations are evolving from a purely technical capability to a key contributor to business resiliency, with cybersecurity becoming an imperative for organizations that have become keenly aware of the need to enable their digital future.

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Getting Started with Machine Learning

Cloudera

In recent years, Ethical AI has become an area of increased importance to organisations. Advances in the development and application of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, require greater care to ensure that the ethics embedded in previous rule-based systems are not lost. This has led to Ethical AI being an increasingly popular search term and the subject of many industry analyst reports and papers.

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AWS Cost Management: The Complete Guide To Manage AWS Costs

CloudZero

Most organizations migrate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud from on-premises data centers. But others switch from another Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to AWS. The most common reason we hear for choosing AWS is cost savings.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Is Your MSP Living Up to Its Potential?

Kaseya

2022 is here and we’re all hitting the ground running! But before you get ahead of yourself, are you sure your MSP is living up to its full potential? As an MSP, it isn’t easy building long-term relationships with your customers and prospects. Being in the “problem solving” business means you need to frequently interact with clients when they’re already stressed.

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Have You Met the Dark Side of UX?: Dark UX Patterns and Why You Should Probably Avoid Them

Gorilla Logic

Have you ever downloaded a free app, but then it requested your credit card number to access it? Or did all of your contacts receive spam emails because you allowed an app access to your contact list? These are examples of Dark UX Patterns. This article will tell you everything you need to know about Dark UX Patterns; what they are and what they aren’t.

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Diversify Your Nonprofit's Funding Sources

TechSoup

Fundraising is hard, even in the best of times. And these are hardly the best of times. We all are struggling to keep the doors open and deliver services regardless of the challenges brought about by the pandemic, the Great Resignation, climate challenges, and other obstacles.

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Top 9 Skills for SREs From Ex-Instacart SRE

Dzone - DevOps

It’s easy to talk at a high level about what Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) do : They ensure that IT systems achieve availability and performance requirements. But which skills, exactly, do SREs need to do their jobs? That’s a more complicated question.

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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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Tips for ensuring training effectiveness

Gitprime

When you train software developers in new technologies, how do you ensure they can apply their new learning on the job? Here’s some advice.

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Where ML Research Meets Data Science Practice: Data Changes & Model Drift

Dataiku

Every year, our Dataiku Lab team presents their annual findings for up-and-coming machine learning (ML) trends in a webinar, based on the extensive work they do in ML research all year. This year, though, we wanted to take a new approach and, instead of solely highlighting the cutting-edge research trends in the space for 2022, we wanted to root that research in reality with real-life data science and AI projects from 2021.

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How Agile Development Teams Can Resolve Agile Measurement Challenges With Function Point Analysis

IDC

It’s easy to understand why Agile is experiencing a strong increase in adoption; as companies become more nimble to embrace the pressures they’re facing in digital transformation, IT development is able to respond aggressively to evolving competitors and exploit markets more easily. But these benefits rival the frustrations on the management side of Agile teams.

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