Thu.Oct 22, 2020

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Using PAM to Support the ‘Sec’ in DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Despite its reputation as slow and complex, PAM can be included in the DevOps pipeline effectively The introduction of DevOps practices has led to a revolution in software development. However, as companies adopt these new technologies, tools and methodologies, incorporating privileged access management (PAM) becomes increasingly complex. Nonetheless, corporate policies, industry standards and government regulations […].

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

In this month’s Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share a variety of perspectives and insights on culture. We’ve also included some quotations from our newest book, Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers and Customer Advocates. You can download a […]. The post Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Health insurance startup Alan lets you chat with a doctor

TechCrunch

French startup Alan is building health insurance products. And 100,000 people are now covered through Alan. I caught up with the company’s co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve so that he could give us an update on the product. Alan has obtained its own health insurance license and is a proper insurance company. It doesn’t partner with existing insurance companies.

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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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[Cheat Sheet] Starting, Sustaining, and Growing Your Technical Career in a Pandemic

Agile Alliance

On October 15th, deliver:Agile Live! hosted a panel on the unique challenges technical job seekers may be facing during the pandemic. There have been many requests for a short cheat sheet that summarizes the most important tips and tricks. This is that sheet. What should I put in front of hiring managers (Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, … Continued.

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Harness to Apply AI to DevOps

DevOps.com

Harness, at its {Unscripted} 2020 conference today, announced its plans in the fourth quarter to make available as a beta a module that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize build and test cycles on the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Enterprise platform. At the same time, Harness is adding a beta of a Continuous Features module […].

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Freelancer banking startup Lili raises $15M

TechCrunch

It’s only been a few months since Lili announced its $10 million seed round , and it’s already raised more funding — namely, a $15 million Series A. The startup, founded by CEO Lilac Bar David and CTO Liran Zelkha, is creating a bank account and associated products designed for freelancers, with features like early access to direct deposit payments and the ability to set aside a percentage of income for taxes.

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How To Foster a Culture of Citizen Developers

DevOps.com

What can leaders do to encourage a thriving environment of citizen developers in their organization? Over the last several months, businesses of all sizes have had to embrace rapid change, as have their workforces. When it comes to IT departments, even before the pandemic many were fielding requests to implement new technology, customize solutions to […].

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This former Tesla CIO just raised $150 million more to pull car dealers into the 21st century

TechCrunch

“I have to choose my words carefully,” says Joe Castelino of Stevens Creek Volkswagen in San Jose, California, when asked about the management software on which most car dealerships rely for inventory information, marketing, customer relationships and more. Castelino, the dealership’s service director, laughs as he says this. But the joke has apparently been on car dealers, most of whom have largely relied on a few frustratingly antiquated vendors for their dealer management sy

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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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OODAcon Online 18 Nov 2020: Hack your way into the future

CTOvision

Join us 18 November 2020 from 1:00pm till 4:30pm for OODAcon Online. About the OODAcon Series The OODAcon series is about understanding the future and developing the resiliency to thrive […].

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Render raises $4.5M for its DevOps platform

TechCrunch

Render , the winner of our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield, today announced that it has added another $4.5 million onto its existing seed funding round, bringing total investment into the company to $6.75 million. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner.

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Our Favorite Questions

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

“ On peut interroger n’importe qui, dans n’importe quel état; ce sont rarement les réponses qui apportent la vérité, mais l’enchaînement des questions. “ “ You can interrogate anyone, no matter what their state of being. It’s rarely their answers that unveil the truth, but the sequence of questions that you have to ask. “ – Inspector Pastor in La Fée Carabine, by Daniel Pennac.

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Acapela, from the founder of Dubsmash, hopes ‘asynchronous meetings’ can end Zoom fatigue

TechCrunch

Acapela , a new startup co-founded by Dubsmash founder Roland Grenke, is breaking cover today in a bid to re-imagine online meetings for remote teams. Hoping to put an end to video meeting fatigue, the product is described as an “asynchronous meeting platform,” which Grenke and Acapela’s other co-founder, ex-Googler Heiki Riesenkampf (who has a deep learning computer science background), believe could be the key to unlock better and more efficient collaboration.

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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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Azul Adds OpenJDK Migration Services

DevOps.com

Azul today announced today it will provide migration services for IT organizations looking to transition from the proprietary Oracle Java Standard Edition (SE) developer platform to the Zulu edition of an open source OpenJDK equivalent. OpenJDK is based on the HotpSpot edition of the Java virtual machine, the Java Class Library and the Java compiler. […].

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Adyen alumni raise €2.6M seed to launch Silverflow, a ‘cloud-native’ card payments processor

TechCrunch

Silverflow , a Dutch startup founded by Adyen alumni, is breaking cover and announcing seed funding. The pre-launch company has spent the last two years building what it describes as a “cloud-native” online card processor that directly connects to card networks. The aim is to offer a modern replacement for the 20 to 40-year-old payments card processing tech that is mostly in use today.

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Bounding ksqlDB Memory Usage

Confluent

It’s important to be able to limit memory consumption of a running service. Use too much, and your application will crash and need to restart. If this happens too often, […].

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How unicorns helped venture capital get later, and bigger

TechCrunch

The venture capital industry’s comeback from fear in Q1 and parts of Q2 to Q3 greed is worth understanding. To get our hands around what happened to private capital in 2020, we’ve taken looks into both the United States’ VC scene and the global picture this week. Catching you up, there was lots of private money available for startups in the third quarter, with the money tilting toward later-stage rounds.

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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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Check your dependencies: GitHub's npm finds nasty Trojan packages

TechBeacon

Our favorite JavaScript package manager, npm, has ’fessed up to hosting four highly malicious packages for up to 18 months. And it’s not the first time the GitHub-owned registry has had to kick code from dodgy devs.

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Quibi’s shortform life

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast ( now on Twitter! ), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Myself , along with Danny and Natasha had a lot to get through, and more to say than expected. A big thanks to Chris for cutting the show down to size. Now, what did we get to? Aside from a little of everything, we ran through: The fall of Quibi , and who lost money in the mix.

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Dataiku (Virtual!) Partner Day 2020: Recap and Awards

Dataiku

Dataiku Partner Day is a yearly opportunity to connect with our dedicated partner ecosystem across the globe, share our company strategy, and provide updates on the product roadmap. Partner Day brings together a variety of Dataiku services partners such as system integrators (SIs), consultants, advisory partners, and value-added resellers. With over 130 active partners, the Dataiku partner ecosystem is continuously growing and Partner Day is a valuable opportunity to keep our partner community e

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Respect the hustle, not the stupidity

TechCrunch

Yes, the media f’ing gorged on the Quibi story yesterday. We did , they did, everyone did. And really, truly, how could anyone not? Nearly $2 billion came in (with $350 million heading back), a star-studded lineup of executives and production teams, an absolutely massive advertising campaign, and a PR strategy that all but begged the sun to melt Icarus’ wings.

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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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The State of SecOps: It's time to think beyond the SOC

TechBeacon

In the age COVID-19, enterprises have had to pivot just to survive, but savvy organizations have seen the pandemic as an opportunity to thrive. They're assessing how they do business—how they manage their supply chains, their vendors, and their workforce. For those organizations, the barriers to digital transformation are dissolving, and they are striving to become more resilient and antifragile, described below.

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Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products

TechCrunch

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. They are generally forced to visit each brand one by one, manually filtering down to what they like. Most of the experience is not that great, and past purchase history and cookies aren’t much to go on to tailor user experience. If someone has bought an army-green military jacket, the e-commerce site is on a hiding to nothing if all it suggests is more army-green military jackets… Inst

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How Custom Healthcare Software Development Can Help Hospitals

Sunflower Lab

Healthcare is more important than ever. Hospitals regularly utilize technology to provide care to patients. However, new health concerns crop of every day that make it harder for care providers to do their jobs. Because of this, software companies are working hard to create custom healthcare software development products. But not just any products, these custom software developments must offer specific features and services to properly serve healthcare providers—because when someone’s life

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E-bike subscription service Dance closes $17.7M Series A, led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

TechCrunch

Three months on since the former founders of SoundCloud launched their e-bike subscription service, Dance today is announcing the close of a $17.7 million (€15 million) Series A funding round led by one of the larger European VCs, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. Founded by Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss (ex-SoundCloud), Alexander Ljung (still at SoundCloud as chairman) and Christian Springub (ex-Jimdo), Dance has ambitions to offer its all-inclusive service subscription package into expanded markets across Eu

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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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VxRail: Driving the Future of HCI at the Edge

Dell EMC

VxRail – the only jointly integrated HCI system with VMware - delivers a curated, turnkey experience, including our HCI System Software that enables automated, full stack lifecycle management. Our continuous innovation in driving operational efficiency at scale and our broad range of platform configuration options enable customers to optimize edge clusters for their workload requirements while addressing space and power constraints… so more and more customers can rely on VxRail to drive the futu

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RepTrak partners with Onclusive to combine reputation and PR data

TechCrunch

RepTrak and Onclusive are announcing a partnership that Onclusive CEO Dan Beltramo said will combine corporate reputation tracking and PR analytics for the first time. RepTrak, founded in 2004, helps businesses measure their reputations (and their competitors’ reputations) through a database of more than 1 million company ratings collected every year.

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AI catches Maze ransomware targeting a healthcare organization

Darktrace

Attackers are targeting increasingly high-stakes environments with ransomware. This blog post explores how AI can be used to detect and autonomously neutralize machine-speed attacks – looking in particular at how Darktrace caught Maze ransomware targeting a healthcare organization.