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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness: Feedback Loops

Martin Fowler

Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. moreā€¦.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

TechCrunch

Thomas Rush. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. However, due to RBI being a relatively new model, publicly available data is limited.

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Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from Louisiana

Agile Alliance

Mardi Gras in the USA is celebrated every winter along the Gulf Coast from Galveston Texas to Pensacola Beach Florida. The first Fat Tuesday Carnivals took place in Mobile Alabama, but when people think of going down the Mardi Gras they are usually thinking of New Orleans! In New Orleans, Mardi Gras season begins on … Continued. The post Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from Louisiana first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. That content, unsurprisingly, also typically costs a ton of money to produce, narrowing the production and distribution funnel even more.

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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. Itā€™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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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness: Feedback Loops

Martin Fowler

Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. moreā€¦.

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7 Trends Influencing DevOps and DevSecOps Adoption

DevOps.com

Enterprise technology adoption trends can be broadly categorized under three pillars: infrastructure, architecture and technology. Letā€™s explore what these trends are and how they influence DevOps and DevSecOps adoption in tech corporations worldwide. Trends in Architecture In computing, architecture is the collection of protocols encompassing the utility, structure and execution of software applications.

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Indian B2B e-commerce startup Udaan raises $280 million

TechCrunch

Business-to-business marketplace Udaan has raised $280 million from new and existing investors as the Indian startup builds a war-chest to accelerate its growth and fend off rivals. The new capital is not part of a new financing round but is an extension of its Series D. The Bangalore-based startup, which secured $585 million prior to the new capital as part of its Series D round and has overall raised $1.15 billion to date, is now valued at more than $3.1 billion, a source familiar with the mat

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What is the cost of poor software quality in the U.S.?

Synopsys

The total cost of poor software quality in the U.S. is estimated at $2.08 trillion. Learn what contributes to the cost and how security can help minimize errors. The post What is the cost of poor software quality in the U.S.? appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India

TechCrunch

Bibit , a robo-advisor app that wants to make investing more accessible in Indonesia, has raised $30 million from Sequoia Capital India. Returning investors East Ventures, EV Growth, AC Ventures and 500 Startups also participated. This funding is a growth round and comes after Bibit’s May 2019 Series A. It brings the company’s total funding so far to $45 million, chief executive officer Sigit Kouwagam told TechCrunch.

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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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Building a Machine Learning Application With Cloudera Data Science Workbench And Operational Database, Part 1: The Set-Up & Basics

Cloudera

Introduction. Python is used extensively among Data Engineers and Data Scientists to solve all sorts of problems from ETL/ELT pipelines to building machine learning models. Apache HBase is an effective data storage system for many workflows but accessing this data specifically through Python can be a struggle. For data professionals that want to make use of data stored in HBase the recent upstream project ā€œhbase-connectorsā€ can be used with PySpark for basic operations.

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Dear Sophie: Banging my head against the wall understanding the US immigration system

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awardsā€™ ā€œLaw Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.ā€ She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Tips for getting a National Interest green card by myself?

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Report: Software Quality Issues Costing U.S. Companies $2.08 Trillion

DevOps.com

A report published today by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimates poor software quality collectively cost companies in the U.S. an estimated $2.08 trillion in 2020. The report, co-sponsored by software quality and security tools provider Synopsys, attempts to calculate, at least theoretically, the cost of known software failures.

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Extra Crunch Live is back in 2021, connecting founders with tech giants and each other

TechCrunch

In April 2020, when the entire world was laser-focused on the coronavirus pandemic, we realized that startupland was in unprecedented territory. How should startups navigate fundraising, operations, and better understand the market? . In a matter of a couple weeks, we spun up a little series called Extra Crunch Live, giving Extra Crunch members the chance to hear from and connect with leaders across the industry.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If youā€™re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache CassandraĀ®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether youā€™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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The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 2: Network Telemetry Sources

Kentik

Introduction. In part 1 of this series , I talked about the importance of network observability as our customers define it ā€” using advances in data platforms and machine learning to supply answers to critical questions and enable teams to take critical action to keep application traffic flowing. Most of the history of network operations has been supported by monitoring tools, mostly standalone, closed systems, seeing one or a couple of network element and telemetry types, and generally on-prem a

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Atlantaā€™s SalesLoft raises $100M for its digital sales platform, now valued at $1.1B

TechCrunch

The COVID-19 pandemic and specifically need for social distancing to slow the spread of the virus have continued to keep many of us away from the office. Now, increasingly, many organizations and people believe that it could usher in a more permanent shift to remote, distributed and virtual work. Today, a startup that has built a set of tools specifically to help salespeople with that change — by way of digital sales — has raised a substantial growth round to meet that demand.

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DevOps security culture: 12 fails your team can learn from

TechBeacon

Will DevOps and DevSecOps still be relevant in 50 years? Today's DevOps technology will be long gone, but some cultural pieces may still be around. My best guess on the part of DevOps that will still exist: DevOps security culture.

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A $525 Million Growth Round To Scale Lacework

Lacework

At Lacework, weā€™re helping to secure cloud infrastructure so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Cloud changes constantly. To build securely in the cloud, you have to know the difference between normal and threatening changes. Lacework was built to understand cloud changes. We capture cloud data and activities and organize it into behaviors [.].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

ā€œReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIā€ 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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3 enterprise continuous testing challengesā€”and how to beat them

TechBeacon

Organizations on the Forbes Global 2000 list are increasingly beset by nimble startups intent on disrupting their industry. Accelerating application delivery is a key part of maintaining a competitive advantage, but it's hard for enterprise organizations to keep pace.

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How Healthcare Companies Can Optimize Software for Improved Patient Outcomes

DevOps.com

Healthcare companies are more reliant than ever on software to help them achieve good patient outcomes. Recent research reveals that the use of software as a service (SaaS) solutions is growing exponentially in health care, covering a wide range of areas including: Patient diagnosis Medical imaging Therapy and patient self-care Data collection and analysis Hospital […].

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8 Mistakes To Avoid While Building a MVP

Cabot Solutions

While a startup has minimalistic budgets a large company can afford to spend the money on product development Many companies end up putting in much effort in developing an over-engineered product Doing this leads to a severe loss of time effort and money This blog discusses a few mistakes to avoid while creating the MVP

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Future of Industry Ecosystems: Shared Data and Insights

IDC

Discover why shared data and insight is crucial to ensure your company will innovate, succeed & build resiliency across your industry ecosystem.

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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 youā€™ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingā€™s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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BMC Strengthens Mainframe Intelligence, Security, and DevOps with New and Enhanced Offerings

DevOps.com

BMC AMI and Compuware solutions help enterprises accelerate innovation with expanded AI, new integrations, and increased automation for the mainframe HOUSTON, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BMC, a global leader celebrating 40 years of delivering software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, today announced several new capabilities and enhancements for the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware portfolios that […].

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How To Choose The Right IT Software Company For Your Startup

Sunflower Lab

Regina Fox Regina Fox is a writer and editor with a passion for music, books, and technology that makes daily life just a little bit easier (she'd quite literally be nowhere without her phone GPS). How To Choose The Right IT Software Company For Your Startup. Doing business these days is nearly impossible without some type of software. When customized to a company’s unique needs, these products help keep teams productive and organized.

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Changing Times Cause CIOs To Change Their Priorities

The Accidental Successful CIO

Image Credit: Peter Reed. Every CIO starts out a year with a clear set of goal: things that we want to get done because of the importance of information technology. However, and this year has been no exception, things have a habit of changing on us. When these changes happen, CIOs are faced with two choices: make no changes and hope for the best or adjust their plans to match the new set of realities that they find themselves dealing with.

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The New Hybrid Workforce

Palo Alto Networks

The start of a new year is traditionally a time for reflection: fondly looking back on the year that was while attempting to predict what could be in the coming year. This past year was challenging in so many ways that itā€™s difficult to identify much to fondly look back upon. However, Iā€™d be remiss if I didnā€™t highlight one area that I have been grateful for ā€“ the tech that enabled so many of us to shift to working from home.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonā€™t cut it in todayā€™s data-driven applications ā€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatā€™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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Make Database Changes with the JDBC Plugin

Flexagon

Most applications use some relational database to store and retrieve data. As an application evolves over time, changes are necessary to underlying database structures. In addition, you may have multiple environments to support application delivery, let’s say development, test and production. Hence it makes sense to automate the build and deployment of both the application.

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How McLaren Racing stays ahead of advanced email threats

Darktrace

Faced with sophisticated phishing attacks targeting their C-suite, McLaren turned to AI to stop advanced email threats that outsmarted their legacy security tools. This blog uncovers an attack that slipped through their gateway but was neutralized by Antigena Email.

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From the Cutting Room Floor to Flying Drones

Dell EMC

#DellInsideCircle member, Adobe Master Trainer, and the co-owner of Mid-Atlantic Drones, Luisa Winters uses her Dell Precision 5750 workstation daily.

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