TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CRED is acquiring CreditVidya, a SaaS startup that helps firms underwrite first-time borrowers, in the latest of a series of investments from the Bengaluru-headquartered fintech as it broadens its infrastructure and offerings. The firms did not disclose the terms of the deal but said it involves both cash and stock. The 10-year-old CreditVidya — headquartered in Hyderabad and backed by Navroz Udwadia, Kalaari Capital and Matrix Partners — had raised $10 million in previous financing

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday, at its annual re:Invent conference, said that it was adding new machine learning capabilities to its cloud-based contact center service, Amazon Connect. AWS launched Amazon Connect in 2017 in an effort to offer a low-cost, high-value alternative to traditional customer service software suites.

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Martin Fowler

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Tim Cochran and Keyur Govande. conclude their description of Etsy's cloud migration by looking at challenges, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, how they continue to learn to improve their cloud usage, and their measurements of cost and carbon consumption. more….

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. The $57.2 million contract is a continuation of a previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) dual-use contract with the U.S. Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA. This award will support the development of what ICON is calling “Project Olympus,” an ambitious plan to build structures on the moon and Mars using i

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Just hear those phone lines jingling, ring ting tingle-ing too. After the last slice of Thanksgiving pie has been served, millions of people will rush out the door to score the best deals of the year. Then they’ll call: about shipping delays, return policies, order details, discount codes, you name it – on top of all the other inquiries your contact center normally handles.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software If we’ve learned anything over the last few years facing a global pandemic, stalled supply chains, rising inflation, and sinking economies, it’s that change is the new normal in today’s markets. In response, organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation. IDC forecasts that global spending on digital transformation will reach $2.8 trillion by 2025 — more than double what was spent in 202 As organizations amp up their digital transformation init

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most large restaurant chains across Africa have grown accustomed to using legacy systems and point-of-sale providers to manage operations. However, for smaller restaurants — which represent the biggest segment of this $50 billion industry — these systems can be rather expensive and do not adequately cater to their needs; thus, they stick with running operations manually. .

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

At Melissa & Doug, a toy company whose mantra is “more play time, less screen time,” CIO Mike Macrie isn’t planning to take his colleagues’ screens away — but he is looking for ways for technology to better enable their creativity and remove drudgery. “My belief is that technology is a set of tools to help them express themselves, to empower them,” he says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Dan Lorenc. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dan Lorenc is CEO and co-founder of Chainguard. Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). He has founded projects like Minikube, Skaffold, TektonCD and Sigstore. SolarWinds and Log4j have made software supply chain security issues a topic of intense interest and scrutiny for businesses and governments alike.

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Genesis Chief Digital Officer Peter Kennedy on being visionary and playing the long game, identifying the capacity and ambition for change in any business, and the importance of CIOs being ‘value creators not risk mitigators’.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Coworking and warehouse space company Saltbox announced today the closing of a $35 million Series B led by Cox Enterprises and Pendulum Holdings. The news comes more than a year after Saltbox closed a $10.6 million Series A, bringing its total funding to $56 million. As TechCrunch previously reported , Saltbox — which was founded in 2019 by Tyler Scriven , Maxwell Bonnie and Paul D’Arrigo — is a pioneer of what it calls “co-warehousing.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into supply chain management with the release of a machine-learning powered cloud application designed to help large enterprises, which often use multiple ERP systems, get a unified view of suppliers, inventory, logistics and other supply-chain related components. The launch of the application, dubbed AWS Supply Chain, comes at a time when the world is suffering from a myriad of supply chain issues, including the pandemic and ongoing war in Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage — our premier event designed for budding entrepreneurs and founders at the very start of their startup journey — returns by popular demand on April 20, 2023. And we’re excited to announce that this year, we’re taking it on the road to Boston, Massachusetts. We’re mixing the East Coast vibe with unparalleled opportunity. This is our only event where you get hands-on training with top industry experts to help you build a successful business.

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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth examines the nuances that distinguish boutique search firms from their larger counterparts. Here are some key insights into selecting the right executive search firm to partner with. Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Various studies show that the failure rate of executives coming into new companies is 30 to 40 percent after 18 months.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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. Oh hey! While we have you here, grab your calendar — we’ve got some things for you to add. For the stargazers among us, we’ll be in Los Angeles doing TC Sessions: Space on December 6. And on April 20, 2023, we’re heading to Boston for our TC Early Stage festival.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

How to be Even More Effective and Helpful as You Coach Your Team. If you’re a manager, you likely hear a lot about not only leading and organizing but also being a coach for your team. And, it can be hard to know exactly how to make that happen in the midst of everything else you have going on. Today on Asking for a Friend I talk with Sara Canaday about tips from her new book “Coaching Essentials for Managers.” She shares her expertise around how to coach your team to do their

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When COVID shut down much of the world in 2020, it ended up wreaking havoc on the supply chain. Suddenly companies built for just-in-time production couldn’t find parts they needed to build their products. Even as COVID subsided, the supply chain woes continued. Veterans of supply management like the founder of startup Amplio watched, and figured there had to be a better way to guard against these kinds of disruptions in the future using software to find parts wherever they were.

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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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Netlify

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In this tutorial we will learn how to create an Astro project, setup a Netlify edge function, and query a Supabase database through a Polyscale cache.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Prismforce, an India-U.S. startup that provides IT and tech services companies with tools to build better talent supply chain, has raised $13.6 million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital India. IT providers spend a large part of their variable costs on hiring skilled employees. But finding those employees from the ever-growing talent market and deploying them effectively to get adequate results is one of the most significant pain points for the industry worldwide.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Apache Kafka’s Streams API embeds Machine Learning into any app or microservice (Java, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) to add business value.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Cloud tech companies are facing a significant cloud skills shortage , making it hard to hire people and difficult to make sure their current workforce’s skills are up to date. Australia- and US-based Saasguru wants to narrow the gap with an edtech platform designed for new graduates and tech workers who want to become better at using cloud platforms like Salesforce or AWS.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Major catastrophes can transform industries and cultures. The Johnstown Flood, the sinking of the Titanic, the explosion of the Hindenburg, the flawed response to Hurricane Katrina–each had a lasting impact. Even when catastrophes don’t kill large numbers of people, they often change how we think and behave. The financial collapse of 2008 led to tighter regulation of banks and financial institutions.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Zilliz this week made generally available a managed cloud service that can now be spun up in less than five minutes. The service is based on the company’s open source Milvus vector database. Frank Liu, director of operations for Zilliz, said the managed Zilliz Cloud service running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud will […]. The post Zilliz Unfurls Managed Vector Database Service appeared first on DevOps.com.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The pandemic-era work-at-home trend caused some workers to decide they enjoy it so much they refuse to return to the office. Many would rather be fired, creating a sizable opportunity for SaaS developers. Work-from-home businesses require SaaS platforms that enable entrepreneurs to connect with their customers and handle their workflow. Here's some inspiration to get developers started.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Blue-green deployment is a change management strategy for software releases. Blue-green deployments require two identically configured hardware environments. One environment is active and serves end users while the other remains idle. Blue-green deployments are typically used for applications with strict uptime requirements. First, new code is released to staging environments and fully tested.

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Dataiku

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We’re t-minus five weeks away from January 1. Which means t-minus five weeks away from New Year’s Day, when conversations and social media feeds will be inundated with talks of resolutions — losing weight, exercising more, reducing screen time, getting that promotion, putting more money aside for savings, starting a meditation practice — you get the idea.

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Mentormate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Increasingly, many of our clients ask us how they can make their organization data-driven. Yet in searching for the “how,” many companies neglect the “why.” Why do they want to implement data solutions into their business in the first place? I’m here to talk about that “why” and, more specifically, one of the key outcomes that drive value when you successfully harness your data — actionable insights.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Zero trust is gaining ground as a go-to strategy to build a more secure environment for breach prevention. In a worldwide survey of 2,767 security professionals and executive leaders published in March 2022, Statista found that 30% have a formal strategy and are actively following a zero-trust policy, and 27% are planning and researching to develop a zero-trust strategy.

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