Mon.Nov 28, 2022

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Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z

TechCrunch

If it seems like Post News launched overnight, that’s because it kind of did. Unlike Mastodon , Hive Social , or other existing social networks being flooded with dissatisfied Twitter users, Post News emerged two weeks ago. The platform was rushed into a live beta, since its team wanted to go public in a time when the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter leadership was front and center in our collective headspace.

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Virtual and hybrid learning works. Here’s how to get it right.

CIO

Education is changing. In part, this shift is driven by students, who increasingly demand virtual and hybrid learning experiences that better match the ways they like to consume content at home. Meanwhile, virtual education has become an essential element of resilience for educational institutions by ensuring that students don’t fall behind during closures.

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Move over, operators — consultants are the new nontraditional VC

TechCrunch

Operating experience has become a buzzword over the last few years as venture capitalists pump up their resumes in a quest to set themselves apart from other sources of startup capital. Now, it seems that we are seeing the next evolution of that trend. This year has seen a wave of startup consultant firms looking to raise venture funds of their own to take stakes in companies they are already working with or that align with their practice.

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Working Smart in the Free Dimension

CIO

If 2020 was the year of remote work, and 2021 was the year of hybrid work, then 2022 is the year to really make hybrid work, work. In fact, Microsoft’s second Annual Work Trend Index “Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work Work” reveals that employees are calling for a ‘Free Dimensional’ Workplace. The survey explores changes from the collective experience of the last two years that business decision-makers should pay attention to as we are introduced to ‘Free Dimensional’ work, and what was a

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans have been unable to tackle, yet ironically, building that AI faces a major scaling problem. It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves.

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Southeast Asia insurtech Igloo increases its Series B to $46M

TechCrunch

Igloo , a Singapore-based insurtech focused on underserved communities in Southeast Asia, announced it has raised a Series B extension of $27 million, bringing the round’s total to $46 million. The first tranche of $19 million was announced in March, and led by Cathay innovation with participation from ACA and returning investors OpenSpace. The newest round was led by the InsuResilience Investment Fund II, which was launched by the German development bank KfW for the German Federal Ministry for

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report to highlight opportunities for DevOps professionals as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively […].

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Google, Microsoft-backed VerSe Innovation cuts 5% of workforce, reduces salaries

TechCrunch

India’s VerSe Innovation — the $5 billion Indian startup behind news aggregator Dailyhunt, short-video platform Josh and hyperlocal video app PublicVibe — has cut 150 employees, or 5% of its workforce of 3,000, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-based startup informed impacted employees on Friday and separately held a town hall meeting on Monday where it announced pay cuts to its remaining staff, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.

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4 Best Practices for Entertainment App Testing

DevOps.com

Entertainment apps represent a broad category of software, ranging from mobile games, to social media platforms, to streaming video apps and beyond. However, all entertainment apps share a few key traits in common: They typically host dynamic content that is unique for each user. This makes entertainment apps different from apps where most or all […].

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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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As Pipe’s founding team departs, tensions rise over allegations

TechCrunch

On November 22, alternative financing startup Pipe announced that its three co-founders were stepping down from their executive roles and that a search for a new, “veteran” CEO had commenced. In an exclusive interview, co-founder and former co-CEO Harry Hurst told TechCrunch that the trio were “0-1 builders, not at-scale operators.” He said the company’s revenue was growing year-over-year and that the company had five years of runway.

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How Does Continuous Testing Improve DevOps?

Dzone - DevOps

Today with new technologies emerging to serve customers, efficient delivery of the software and the ability to quickly resolve the issues that may occur are among the keys to a successful product launch. The users demand quality and seamlessly working products, and businesses want to deliver the software faster. Testing is one of the necessary procedures to ensure that the software is performing as entitled and, thus, doesn’t contain bugs.

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Deepomatic wants to build the AI-based computer vision companion for field workers

TechCrunch

French startup Deepomatic has raised a $10.5 million (€10 million) Series B funding round. While the founding round is relatively small, the startup has managed to convince some large-scale clients to use its visual automation platform. For instance, telecom companies use Deepomatic on the field to check that tasks have been completed successfully. EnBW New Ventures and Orbia Ventures are leading the newly announced funding round, which Deepomatic closed in October.

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CIO Leadership Live with Shumon A Zaman, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Ali & Sons

CIO

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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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This startup is bringing precision control for gamers to the humble keyboard

TechCrunch

You wouldn’t drive a car or fly a plane if the only controls you had available were on/off switches for left and right or up and down, and yet that’s pretty much what gamers are stuck with when they control their virtual avatars with their keyboards. U.K. startup Peratech wants to change that with a new range of “force feedback” keyboards that are starting to turn up in Lenovo notebook computers.

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Question Everything Always

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

There are no stupid questions. There are only stupid people who don’t ask questions. Today’s post is by Gary Douglas, the founder of Access Consciousness®. People have always told me that the way I do business is different. I may indeed have a slightly different point of view about most things in life – and I’ll change my point of view on a dime.

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Say hello to the TechCrunch+ Cyber Monday sale!

TechCrunch

To celebrate Cyber Monday, TechCrunch+ is having a sale! Until November 30th, take 25% off a subscription to secure access to all our work. . TechCrunch+ is TechCrunch’s founder-focused analytical arm. We cover the trends behind the news, dig into venture capital numbers, report on how startups are executing today, and share advice and insight from tech operators.

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How to Achieve Effective Software Delivery with Test Automation

Flexagon

Many software releases lack adequate testing. As a result, applications fail to live up to quality standards. Testing is often ineffective because manual testing takes time and causes errors. The solution is to use test automation. In a recent survey conducted by Pulse QA and Flexagon, 68% of 100 software delivery leaders worldwide stated that they had no or partial implementation of continuous testing within their CI/CD pipeline, while another similar survey showed that only 7% of applications

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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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It’s Never Too Early to Get Into Tech Sales: Discover Dataiku’s BDR Program

Dataiku

It’s never too early to get into tech sales. At least that’s what we believe here at Dataiku. But really, how could you think differently when surrounded by passionate sales professionals who give their all to help our current and potential customers find ways to solve problems — from the mundane to moonshots?

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Best of both for CSPM: Lacework & AWS Security Hub

Lacework

Cloud security posture is an important part of any organization’s security practice. By understanding your assets and attack surface, you have a better opportunity to identify, detect, and respond to risks before they become a major issue. The problem is that security teams typically struggle with applying security policies consistently across the organization.

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How Finance Can Instill An ROI Mindset In Engineering

CloudZero

Conventional wisdom states that SaaS engineers don’t care about costs. They care about building an optimal product, regardless of the dollar signs associated with it.

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4 Key DevOps Metrics for Improved Efficiency and Performance

Dzone - DevOps

We’re seeing an increasing number of organizations renew their focus on adopting and improving their DevOps practices to help optimize their software development life cycle and improve their delivery velocity to reach markets and customers faster. Here’s all you need to know about the four key DevOps metrics and how teams can use these metrics to improve dev efficiency and performance to build better and faster products for their customers.

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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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Verify the User and Login using AWS Cognito with React JS – Part 3

Cloud That

TABLE OF CONTENT. 1. Overview. 2. Introduction to ‘amazon-cognito-identity-js’. 3. Steps to Create a Component. 4. Conclusion. 5. About CloudThat. 6. FAQs. Overview. In my previous blog, we learned how to integrate the registration process of AWS Cognito in react.js. We created a signup component and configured it with User Pool. In this blog, we will learn the user verification process and a detailed guide to logging in to the user in the AWS Cognito user pool from react.js using the ‘ama

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If Modified Henry Ford Were Your CIO, You’d Be Crushing It in the Cloud

d2iq

I was hesitant to write a piece on Henry Ford because of his unsavory political views that have tarnished his reputation. However, if we focus on Ford only as a businessman and innovator we can draw some compelling parallels to today’s industrial and business landscape.Thus, for this article we will postulate a modified Henry Ford, a virtual character who possesses only Henry Ford’s positive qualities.

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Process debt is something you should care about 

Apiumhub

Intro and problem statement. Early this year, the book Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to improve the quality of your architecture was published. This book is very special for Apiumhub , as Christian Ciceri, co-founder and chief architect, is one of the co-authors. Christian wrote a chapter that is particularly useful in contexts where the architecture and environment still have many opportunities for improvement.

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Microsoft Entra- A New Approach for Identity and Access Solutions

Cloud That

TABLE OF CONTENT. 1. Overview. 2. What is Microsoft Entra? 3. What are the products that come with Microsoft Entra? 4. Benefits of Microsoft Entra. 5. Conclusion. 6. About CloudThat. 7. FAQs. Overview. The virtual estates of organizations are growing, changing, and turning into boundaryless. Security-demanding situations have grown to be tons broader, and there is a want for broader solutions.

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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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Investing in Unit Testing: Benefits and Approaches

Toptal

Stakeholders demand quick fixes for a buggy app release. Such patching is costly, and does not always offer a complete solution. Break the cycle with unit testing, a worthwhile investment in project quality.

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Fix a faulty Virtual Machine Using Nested Virtualization in Azure

Cloud That

TABLE OF CONTENT. 1. Introduction. 2. Step-by-Step Guide for troubleshooting faulty Virtual Machines and the Creation of Rescue Virtual Machines. 3. Conclusion. 4. About CloudThat. 5. FAQs. Introduction. Azure is a platform for open-source cloud computing. It offers numerous cloud services, such as computation, analytics, storage, and networking. These services are available for users to choose from while creating and scaling new apps or using the public cloud to operate existing applications.

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AppSec Decoded: Get actionable solutions with DAST

Synopsys

Our security experts discuss today’s DevSecOps challenges and how DAST solutions like WhiteHat Dynamic can help address those challenges.

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