Tue.Dec 20, 2022

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

It’s been a year. This roundup is never a particularly fun one to write. No one wants to see startups fail, but we’re all keenly aware that most ultimately do. A commonly cited figure suggest that 90% of these companies will ultimately fail. But even with that in mind, 2022 just hit different. The previous two years were unprecedented in startup land, of course.

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The Top Cloud Security Threat Comes from Within

CIO

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. In fact, it originates from inside your IT organization. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. According to a recent study , 79% of companies had experienced a cloud data breach in the past 18 months—and 67% of respondents had identified security misconfiguration as the top security threat.

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Simplify debugging to reduce the complexity of embedded system development

TechCrunch

Nicolas Rabault. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nicolas Rabault is co-founder and CEO of Luos, an open source startup that helps users develop scalable edge and embedded distributed software. The complexity associated with the development of embedded systems is increasing rapidly. For instance, it is estimated that the average complexity of software projects in the automotive industry has increased by 300% over the past decade.

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Why You Need to Consider Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

CIO

In today’s connected, always-on world, unplanned downtime caused by a disaster can exact substantial tolls on your business from a cost, productivity, and customer experience perspective. Investing in a robust disaster recovery program upfront can save considerable costs down the road. Unfortunately, many businesses learn this lesson the hard way. According to FEMA, nearly a quarter of businesses never re-open following a major disaster—a sobering statistic.

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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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Daily Crunch: New Point-E AI allows users to generate 3D objects from detailed text prompts

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We’ve been working on a series of gift guides over the past month or so. Today, Devin ’s guide to gaming headphones is up! If you missed any of our gift guides, here’s our full set of them so far! Our favorite gift would be “more hours in the day” and “a week of sleep,” but failing that, perhaps some hot chocolate and a three-hour uninterru

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More investors, more problems

TechCrunch

Amid 2021’s record-breaking funding activity, it wasn’t uncommon to see startups raise rounds composed of numerous small checks from a large number of firms and angel investors. But now that said companies are looking to raise extension financing, they’re realizing that more investors doesn’t always mean more future money. Last year, FOMO was running high, and investors were doing seemingly everything to get into rounds: taking a secondary stake instead of a primary, forgoing a

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Overcome These 7 Challenges to Optimize Your Hybrid Multicloud Journey

CIO

In a 2021 survey , 95% of respondents agreed that a hybrid cloud is critical for success, and 86% plan to invest more in hybrid multicloud. Hybrid multicloud has emerged as the new design center for organizations of all sizes. Rather than purchasing costly infrastructure upfront to accommodate future growth, the hybrid multicloud helps you scale up and down as needed and right-size your environment.

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This VC is bullish about American dynamism – ‘the real one’

TechCrunch

For many Americans, COVID-19 served as a wake-up call: The U.S. was nowhere nearly as prepared to overcome challenges as it should be, and it was overly dependent on China. Whether the current geopolitical order calls for a new wave of isolationism will depend on your worldview, but the desire for the U.S. to be more self-reliant, solve its most glaring issues and stay ahead of its rivals can be found across the political spectrum.

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An interview with outgoing Board Member Ellen Grove

Agile Alliance

An interview with Ellen Grove about what it was like to serve on the Agile Alliance board, including the highs and lows, some surprising things they learned, and more. The post An interview with outgoing Board Member Ellen Grove first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Vanity metric dangers, planning for failure, Black founders survey

TechCrunch

Few startups launch with a coherent content strategy. In the early days, every project is a sprint, and there are times when putting on a show for investors can feel more important than actually serving your customers. Blogs are a great example: Because they’re a cheap way to drive SEO, companies crank them out, then use KPIs like time on site, pages per session and social media likes to demonstrate how successful they’ve been. “The truth is: vanity metrics don’t measure how en

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DevOps 2022: The Year That Was and Wasn’t

DevOps.com

We will be wrapping up our DevOps coverage for the year by the end of this week. It’s hard to believe that another year has gone by. The gravitational lensing of COVID-19 makes it hard to see the progression of the last nine years here at DevOps.com. Things seem to get a bit hazy looking back. […]. The post DevOps 2022: The Year That Was and Wasn’t appeared first on DevOps.com.

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We had thoughts in 2022. Here are the top takes from the TechCrunch+ team

TechCrunch

In 2022, uncertainty continued: Major acquisitions took place, layoffs swept the tech industry and Elon Musk bought Twitter. While that last one may not have been on your 2022 bingo card, it certainly caused quite a bit of commotion here at TechCrunch — and got us talking. This year, a big trend for us was doing “ three views ” and other collaboration pieces.

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5 Best Practices for Implementing Cloud-Native DevOps

DevOps.com

As the world transitions to cloud-native offerings as an industry norm, DevOps is gaining traction for its critical role in supporting more efficient IT infrastructure. DevOps is designed to boost collaboration and communication by streamlining the automation process to expedite the creation and deployment of applications. Implementing cloud-native DevOps requires organizations to make a massive […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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User Interviews, which helps companies recruit survey participants, raises $27.5M

TechCrunch

Most companies agree that user experience is important. In a 2019 report from UserZoom, 70% of enterprise CEOs said that they see user and customer experience as a competitive differentiator. But figuring out what exactly users want — and what frustrates them — can prove to be a challenge. Customer satisfaction and market research surveys have response rates ranging around 10% on the low end, and many user experience researchers say that they don’t have enough time for analysis

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A Fork of Kubernetes: 6 Challenges

TechBeacon

In a relatively short time, the open-source ecosystem has evolved from a set of niche projects with limited corporate backing into the de facto way to build software. Today, companies small and large adopt open-source software (OSS) to accelerate product development and innovation.

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Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect

TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca caught up with Alice Albrecht about her early-stage AI startup re:collect. Alice talked about why she founded the company that uses machine learning algorithms to help creatives brainstorm and recall information without breaking focus. She also talked about why the algorithms re:collect is building will have guardrails from the start and also what it is like building an AI company in a time when inte

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Opvizor Extends Monitoring Reach to the Cloud

DevOps.com

Opvizor, a unit of Codenotary, has extended its monitoring capabilities to cloud computing environments starting with support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Codenotary CTO Dennis Zimmer said Opvizor aggregates data to provide a more efficient approach to applying analytics to surface performance and risk issues. Previously, Opvizor was optimized for instances of […].

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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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Banish vanity metrics from your startup’s pitch deck

TechCrunch

Oh man, you got 300 email sign-ups, awesome! Goodness, your web traffic spiked by 200%! Yesssss! Holy god, you got a feature article on TechCrunch — well done! You won an award from the regional chamber of commerce! Break open the champagne, right? Not so fast. These moments of excitement are, in fact, your body lying to you. The little hits of dopamine feel so good.

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The DevOps Workflow is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It

DevOps.com

While great progress has been made in bridging the gap between developers and operations engineers, fundamental differences in roles and responsibilities, alignment, and access to information hinder further progress. Everyone is familiar with the DevOps infinity loop: This is an ideal workflow where every stage of the software development life cycle feeds into the next. […].

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CodeSOD: Cole's Law of Authentication

The Daily WTF

Cabbages are an interesting vegetable, especially as they're one of those subtypes of brassica, that endlessly polymorphic family of plants which includes everything from cauliflower to Brussels sprouts and likely Audrey II. Gabe was doing for work for a family of academic institutions, and ended up drawing the short straw and working on their scholarship application system.

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Optimizing the Energy Sector with Data Analytics

Cloudera

Across the energy supply chain from generation to consumer, we can see that the trend toward investing in renewable energy has picked up pace as demand has grown for energy companies to actively pursue investments in energies with little or no environmental impact in the quest for decarbonisation. McKinsey estimates that by 2035, 50% of energy will be wind and solar.

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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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Landmark EU Law Strengthens Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructures

Palo Alto Networks

The European Union (EU) adopted the revised Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) in November 2022. This is critical new legislation with an array of provisions poised to help the EU raise its cyber resilience. It is especially important in a time of growing geopolitical tensions and cyberattacks where European citizens and their economies depend on a stable and secure digital infrastructure.

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Big Data Architecture for the Masses: A ksqlDB and Kubernetes Tutorial

Toptal

Today’s cloud building blocks empower any size team—even a lone engineer—to build big data solutions. Learn how to use open-source tools to create scalable architecture for your next project.

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Research: Workplace Stigma Around Menopause Is Real

Harvard Business Review

New research shows that women experiencing menopause are judged as less leader-like — unless they talk about it openly.

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Finding the Right Cyber Security AI for You

Darktrace

This blog explores the nuances of AI in cyber security, how to identify true AI, and considerations when integrating AI technology with people, processes, and other technology.

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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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Calculated Column VS Measures in Power BI: Understand the Difference

Perficient

Power BI is a powerful data visualization application that enables analysts to analyze data using computations. Calculated Columns and Measures are the most common types of calculations. Both are written in DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), Power BI Desktop’s primary formula, query language, and make most of the part of Power BI calculations. Let’s check out how calculated column & measure works in Power BI.

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Ron Howard on Collaborative Leadership and Career Longevity

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Hollywood legend Ron Howard about talent, success, and taking chances.

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2022 Modern Healthcare Survey Recognizes Perficient as 4th-Largest Healthcare IT Consulting Firm

Perficient

We’re excited to announce that Perficient has been ranked the fourth-largest healthcare IT consulting firm in Modern Healthcare’s 2022 survey , holding our 2021 placement. The annual survey ranked healthcare IT consulting firms according to 2021 provider revenue, the number of health IT contracts, and the number of healthcare IT consultants.