TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Indonesia-based insurtech startup Fuse announced today it has secured $25 million of Series B extension round as it plans to enter more countries including Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. The startup has closed three funding rounds of Series B within the past six months, bringing the company’s total raised to over $70 million. The fresh capital was led by an undisclosed global fintech fund with participation from existing investors East Ventures, GGV Capital, eWTP and Emtek. .

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Andrew's fourth supporting element for the Advice Process is using a tech radar to capture and map out your local version of the technology trends you see across your organization. more….

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Manish Maheshwari, the former head of Twitter India who recently moved to San Francisco to work at a different division within the company, is leaving the firm to launch an edtech startup, according to nine people familiar with the matter. Maheshwari and Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment two weeks ago. Sources requested anonymity as the details are private.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Some folks swear a microservices architecture is always a good choice and that a monolith architecture is always a bad choice. But is this true? And is this true for you and your product? Come to think of it – what architecture is a good choice for you and your product? Not all software architectures are equal. When … Continued. The post Agile Architectures first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Harry’s Labs, the in-house incubator started by razor brand Harry’s Inc. , announced Monday it agreed to acquire Lum? , the direct-to-consumer brand created to help control all-over body odor. Harry’s created the innovation group in 2018 that has backed or launched several consumer product companies, including cat products startup Cat Person , body care line Flamingo and hair care line Headquarters.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Raghu Ravinutala. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Raghu Ravinutala is CEO and co-founder of Yellow.ai , a platform that brings AI and human intelligence together to automate customer experience for large brands and enterprises. If given a choice between being on hold with customer service and having a query resolved by a few taps of a smartphone keyboard, most of us would pick the second option.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When the broader organization just isn’t agile, teams can get stuck. They’re waiting for their knight in shining armor – the ‘enlightened’ executive – to transform it all. What happens when the hero isn’t coming? Is it possible to realistically accept an organization’s limitations without killing morale? Can a manager or coach ‘shield’ a team … Continued.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. Also participating was PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado and Google’s ex-director of product, Andrey Doronichev. StudyFree has now received a total of $3.6 million in funding.

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Henrik Warne

DECEMBER 13, 2021

There seems to be an established truth in programming that code reviews find a lot of bugs. An example is chapter 18 (Modern Code Review ) in the book Making Software. This is however not my experience – I rarely find outright bugs when reviewing changes. But I still think code reviews are useful. Below are my thoughts on the value of code reviews, and how to make the process efficient.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Now out of private beta, the app offers families a way to curate and share their favorite moments and memories via their smartphone as an alternative to using a more public social media platform, like Facebook, or group texting, where photos and videos can be easily lost.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We have reached the point where some mid-career developers have never known anything but agile (or some definition of agile). I wonder, on balance, though, how they feel about the way they work. Do they feel pride in their work? Do they feel a sense of accomplishment when they release software on a regular cadence? … Continued. The post The Next Wave first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The beauty and wellness industry, annually worth some $4 trillion , is underpinned by tens of thousands of businesses and millions of professionals carrying out haircuts, treatments and workouts. Today, a company called Fresha , which provides a software stack to help them run those operations, is announcing new funding of $52.5 million to continue building out its own business.

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When programming and coding for a longer time frame, it is very important to have a comfortable monitor that does not strain your eyes much. It is very important to get the monitor that’s the right size, with sufficient screen size to have several windows open and work comfortably without any squint. You must consider a flicker-free monitor since backlight flicker will cause eye strain and headaches with longer use.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb , a software startup for web3 projects, closed on $5 million in funding from a group of high-profile business leaders, entrepreneurs and creators, including Gary Vaynerchuk and Mark Cuban. The company launched its free tools three months ago for developers to build, launch and manage their web3 projects without writing any lines of code. Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For the past 20 years, Agile Alliance has been the leading non-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting Agile ways of working. This conversation–the 5th in the series of Women in Agile panels co-presented by Agile Testing Days and Agile Alliance–will highlight some of the women who have been involved in helping Agile Alliance fulfill its mission and … Continued.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Unique , a video calls platform that uses AI to teach sales teams how to improve their pitches, has closed a $6 million seed round from a bunch of angel investors. These include Philipp Stauffer (U.S based founder and general partner of Fyrfly Venture Partners) and Daniel Gutenberg. Unique uses AI to analyse customer conversations. The video recordings of these then help sales people work out which parts of their pitch work best.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Writing REST-services in Go is fairly boring and repetitive. Both with the standard http-library as with frameworks you need to write quite some code to implement a simple service. Since we do like Java’s “JAX-RS” approach (using annotations), we wondered if we can use this same declarative approach in Go. This blog describes this successful experiment.

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The “last mile” in the supply chain has gotten lots of attention during the pandemic. Even e-commerce giants like Amazon have struggled to surmount the challenges of distributing product fast enough to keep up with demand. But Factor , a startup created in 2018 by manufacturing industry veterans Doug Shultz and Michael Szewczyk , just raised a seed round to streamline a different part of the supply chain process, which it calls the “first mile.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The need to innovate faster, manage multiple environments, optimize an application’s life cycle and achieve continuous delivery are aspirational goals that a successful DevOps team strives for. But there are loads of challenges, as meeting these goals increases the pressure on DevOps teams to adopt improved application architecture, new tools and developer workflows.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Walmart’s had its ups and downs in the robotics world, looking for any advantage in a bid to stay competitive with Amazon’s online domination. In July, the mega-retailer inked a deal with Symbotic , further cementing its commitment to the Massachusetts-based automation firm. The new deal expanded a partnership first piloted in 2017 that’s set to bring robotics to 25 regional Walmart distribution centers.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Azure AD provider for Terraform can be used to manage your Azure Active Directory resources declaratively. This allows you to do things like: Automatically provision users and make sure they belong to the correct groups. Manage Azure compute permissions via Azure AD groups. In this post, you will learn what the Azure AD Terraform provider is used for, how to authenticate and grant permissions and see examples of what you can do with it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Meet Topi , a Berlin-based startup that raised a $4.5 million pre-seed funding round co-led by Index Ventures and Creandum. The company is working on a payment solution that is both fast and capital efficient for businesses. On the B2C front, consumer payments have evolved at a rapid pace over the last few years. When it’s time to check out, customers expect to be able to choose between several payment methods that all offer different advantages and drawbacks.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 13, 2021

GitOps is a relatively new term, but it continues to gain momentum as more organizations embrace the paradigm. In DevOps, GitOps lands on the software engineering side of the development and operations continuum. Even though GitOps is more likely to be adopted by smaller organizations, larger enterprises can successfully implement GitOps with just a few […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

News that the SenseTime IPO is on hold leaves the stock market with just one major tech listing on the horizon: Samsara’s public debut, which is currently anticipated to price Tuesday and trade Wednesday. That makes it the perfect moment to sit back and chat through a few of the year’s biggest offerings and how they performed post-debut.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Summary. On December 10th 2021, the Apache Software Foundation released version 2.15.0 of the Log4j Java logging library, fixing CVE-2021-44228 , a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Log4j 2.0-2.14. An attacker can use this vulnerability to instruct affected systems to download and execute a malicious payload through submitting a custom-crafted request.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Happy December everyone. We’re officially nearing the end of the year, and what a year it’s been. Despite the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, I think it’s pretty safe to say that this has been a watershed 365 days for the space industry. I can’t wait to see what the next year has in store.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This article is in line with our latest article YAKD: Yet Another Kubernetes Dashboard in which we listed several dashboard projects dedicated to managing Kubernetes clusters. In this article, we focused on development tools and we tried to highlight considerations that everyone should have in mind to correctly identify which tool is the best in which context.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When the global pandemic hit, Russell d’Sa was running product at Medium and recognized early on that with everyone working from home, the company’s culture was impacted, affecting a lot of the interaction between employees. “What disappeared was the collegial conversations, the drinks on Friday evenings or making coffee together,” he told TechCrunch.

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