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Monzo founder Tom Blomfield is departing the challenger bank and says he’s ‘struggled’ during the pandemic

TechCrunch

Monzo founder Tom Blomfield is departing the U.K. challenger bank entirely at the end of the month, staff were informed earlier today. Blomfield held the role of CEO until May last year when he assumed the newly created title of president and resigned from the Monzo board. However, having been given the time and space to consider his long-term future at the bank he helped create six years ago, and with a refreshed executive team now in place, he says it is time to “hand over the baton̶

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From Build to Run: Pointers on Secure Deployment

Xebia

Our experience with resources on secure deployment Have you ever searched for resources on “Secure Software Deployment”? Most of the results revolve around the pentesting or putting security tools in your CI/CD pipeline. It would be the same as researching how to improve your cake baking skills, but end up with manuals of kitchen appliances. […].

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Fintech startups and unicorns had a stellar Q4 2020

TechCrunch

The fourth quarter of 2020 was as busy as you imagined, with super late-stage startups reaching new valuation thresholds at a record pace, and total venture capital funding in the United States recording its second-best result of all time. That’s according to data released recently by CB Insights, which complements our look back at 2020’s venture capital year in America from yesterday.

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The best AI, analytics, and big data conferences of 2021

TechBeacon

As in 2020, most conference organizers are once again opting to hold their events virtually, althoug some events scheduled for the latter half of the year are optimistically scheduled to be in-person events.

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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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Miami-based Ironhack raises $20 million for its coding bootcamps as demand for coders continues

TechCrunch

Ironhack , a company offering programming bootcamps across Europe and North and South America, has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding. The Miami-based company (with locations in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Paris and São Paulo) said it will use the money to build out more virtual offerings to complement the company’s campuses.

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African edtech startup uLesson lands a $7.5 million Series A

TechCrunch

ULesson , an edtech startup based in Nigeria that sells digital curriculum to students through SD cards, has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Owl Ventures, which closed over half a billion in new fund money just months ago. Other participants include LocalGlobe and existing investors, including TLcom Capital and Founder Collective.

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How Do I Deal With a Suspected Two-Faced Leader?

Let's Grow Leaders

When you’re a manager of managers, one of the most important parts of your job is to know the managers on your team are leading well. Which can be tricky. Because every now and then you run into a two-faced leader, who […]. The post How Do I Deal With a Suspected Two-Faced Leader? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Curtsy, a clothing resale app aimed at Gen Z women, raises $11 million Series A

TechCrunch

Curtsy , a clothing resale app and competitor to recently IPO’d Poshmark, announced today it has raised $11 million in Series A funding for its startup focused on the Gen Z market. The app, which evolved out of an earlier effort for renting dresses , now allows women to list their clothes, shoes and accessories for resale, while also reducing many of the frictions involved with the typical resale process.

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Enterprise Software Development Will Break the Speed Limit in 2021

DevOps.com

For some, 2020 was the year for software development speed … but not for everyone. Startups and SMEs climbed on board the CI/CD, shift-left and agile development train en masse – and reaped the benefits of faster iterations and tighter release schedules. But the “big kids” got left behind. Core enterprise applications – the legacy […].

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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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Cannabis marketing startup Fyllo acquires DataOwl

TechCrunch

Fyllo has acquired DataOwl , a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers. Fyllo said it already works with 320 cannabis retailers across 25 states (plus Puerto Rico and Jamaica). According to Chief Marketing Officer Conrad Lisco, this acquisition allows the company to offer the industry’s “first end-to-end marketing solution,” combining consumer data, digital advertising, regulatory compliance (thanks to Fyllo’s acquisition of CannaRegs last year

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Helpful Tools for Apache Kafka Developers

Confluent

Apache Kafka® is at the core of a large ecosystem that includes powerful components, such as Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams. This ecosystem also includes many tools and utilities that […].

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Accounting automation startup Geroges raises $42.4 million and rebrands to Indy

TechCrunch

French startup Georges — or Georges.tech — is raising a new round of funding of $42.4 million (€35 million). The company is also getting a new name and will be called Indy going forward. The startup has been building an accounting automation application for freelancers and small companies. Singular is leading today’s funding round. You might not be familiar with Singular, but it makes a ton of sense to see the VC firm on the cap table.

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Building a Machine Learning Application With Cloudera Data Science Workbench And Operational Database, Part 3: Productionization of ML models

Cloudera

In this last installment, we’ll discuss a demo application that uses PySpark.ML to make a classification model based off of training data stored in both Cloudera’s Operational Database (powered by Apache HBase) and Apache HDFS. Afterwards, this model is then scored and served through a simple Web Application. For more context, this demo is based on concepts discussed in this blog post How to deploy ML models to production.

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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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HiPeople picks up $3M seed to automate reference checks

TechCrunch

HiPeople , a HR tech startup based in Berlin that wants to automate the reference checking process, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Mattias Ljungman’s Moonfire , with participation from Capnamic Ventures, and Cherry Ventures. It follows a $1.1 million pre-seed in late 2019. Notably, the seed round was closed fully remote, without any in-person meetings.

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Red Hat Expands RHEL Subscription Program for Developers

DevOps.com

Red Hat is extending its developer program to make it simpler for both individual developers and small teams to access a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system subscription. These programs are launched in the wake of Red Hat’s decision to no longer invest in an open source CentOS Linux distribution project. Many developers […].

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Genflow nabs $11M investment from BGF

TechCrunch

Genflow , a London an0d LA-based brand building agency that offers an e-commerce and mobile tech platform to let influencers start companies, has raised $11 million in funding. Leading the round is U.K. investor BGF. The injection of capital will be used by Genflow to further scale its offering and for international expansion. Founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Shan Hanif to help social media influencers develop their brands and extract revenue from their audiences, Genflow combines aspects of a tr

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Digital Transformation is a Data Journey From Edge to Insight

Cloudera

Digital transformation is a hot topic for all markets and industries as it’s delivering value with explosive growth rates. Consider that Manufacturing’s Industry Internet of Things (IIOT) was valued at $161b with an impressive 25% growth rate, the Connected Car market will be valued at $225b by 2027 with a 17% growth rate, or that in the first three months of 2020, retailers realized ten years of digital sales penetration in just three months.

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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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Will AI delete your app sec job? 5 lessons for software teams

TechBeacon

In 2020, the OpenAI team granted access to what many consider "artificial intelligence": the third version of the generative pre-trained transformer, or GPT-3. The AI model is an exercise in scale, with 175 billion parameters, or 10 times more than the previous largest model, and can quickly learn a task with a few examples. GPT-3 can create passages of prose that both make sense and sound human.

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Leadership Lessons CEOs Can Take From 2020

CEO Insider

No one predicted what happened last year. Our vocabulary expanded, our world view was altered, and for many, the way and where we work changed. While some would like to forget 2020 and just move on, wise CEOs know there are rich lessons to be found in challenging and painful experiences. From our work with […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Leadership Lessons CEOs Can Take From 2020 are those of the author Kevin Eikenberry alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine

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Failing the Test

The Daily WTF

Like many dev teams, Rubi 's team relies heavily on continuous integration. Their setup, like many others, relies on git hooks, and whenever someone pushes a commit to any branch, it automatically runs all the associated unit tests. Good code stays green, and any bugs are immediately revealed. Branches with failing tests cannot be merged into the main branch, which is all pretty reasonable.

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Life Lessons Interview with Mike Figliuolo

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Mike Figliuolo, thoughtLEADERS’ Managing Director, recently sat down with Jinky Diola of WorldClassPerformer.com to share some life stories, tactics, and experiences. Read the full interview below. You can find links to this interview and other WorldClassPerformer interviews at the bottom of this post. Where did you grow up and what was your childhood like?

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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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DNSpooq: Seven Vulnerabilities Identified in dnsmasq

Tenable

Researchers identify seven vulnerabilities in popular Domain Name System software. Background. On January 19, researchers from the JSOF Research lab disclosed seven vulnerabilities in dnsmasq , a widely used open-source application for network infrastructure. Dubbed “DNSpooq” by the JSOF team, the acronym is a play on words as the vulnerabilities allow for Domain Name System (DNS) spoofing.

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Sunflower Lab Named in Top 100 Companies in the World for Fastest Growth + Sustained Growth

Sunflower Lab

Sunflower Lab Makes Clutch’s Top 100 List of Fastest Growing + Sustained Growth Software Development Companies in the World. Our team at Sunflower Lab just got off the phone with Clutch! They called our offices to tell us that we had just been named one of the top Clutch 100 fastest growing firms and the Clutch 100 sustained growth firms! Hiring an outside provider is a smart business move in many ways, and hiring app developers is even more essential.

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Oracle January 2021 Critical Patch Update Includes Fixes for Five Critical WebLogic Flaws (CVE-2021-2109)

Tenable

Oracle’s first Critical Patch Update of 2021 addressed 329 security updates across 25 product families, including five new critical flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server. Background. On January 19, Oracle released the Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2021 , its first quarterly release for the year. This quarterly update contains fixes for 202 CVEs in 329 security updates across 25 Oracle product families.

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GigaSpaces Closes Strong 2020, Doubling Annual Recurring Revenues, Fueled by New Product Innovations to Drive Customers’ Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Growing demand for In-Memory Computing platforms powers record results New York, NY — January 20, 2021 — GigaSpaces, the leading provider of in-memory computing platforms that drive digital transformation announced today its 2020 results. The company doubled annual recurring revenues and doubled the number of subscription customers for the second year in a row.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Webinar Review: Make DevSecOps Your New Year’s Resolution

Flexagon

Challenges of Today’s Software Delivery Working efficiently and effectively is a constant challenge for IT teams. Individual organizations and industries at large demand greater innovation and high-quality outputs while maintaining a strict budget. As a result, IT landscapes must shift from traditional Waterfall SDLCs to Agile models, from silos to collaborative cultures, and from limited.

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HAProxy Updates Data Plane API to Simplify Service Discovery

DevOps.com

HAProxy has updated the open source HAProxy Data Plane application programing interface (API) to include service discovery capabilities alongside native support for the Consul service mesh being developed by HashiCorp. Version 2.2 of the HAProxy Data Plane API also adds support for file handling, SSL certificates, map files and configuration files for its Stream Processing […].

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5 essential fintech skills organizations need to develop now

Gitprime

Learn what fintech skills are more critical to organizations now than ever before, including DevSecOps, AI/ML, data, cloud, blockchain and security.

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