TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of International Growth Ed Baker, TripAdvisor founder Stephen Kaufer, Pillar VC and more.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 17, 2021
What do you do when you see a problem and you want to bring it to your colleagues’ attention, but you’re worried it might create problems? This topic came in as a question from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s a fantastic opportunity to address some leadership challenges that everyone can empathize with. In this episode, you get three steps to use to address problems with your peers.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Fuzey , a London-based company providing what it calls a “digital one-stop shop” for small businesses and independent contractors, raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by byFounders with participation from Flash Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Ascension and a group of angel investors, including Index Ventures’ venture partner Stephane Kurgan and Amplo VC founder and CEO Sheel Tyle.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Start here to empower your team, even when you don’t have all the answers. “Karin, there’s so much uncertainty these days. I feel like I’m caught in a constant wait-and-see sea of indecision. What can I do to empower my team to keep moving?” #AskingForaFriend. Lessons from Gail: Tips to Help Empower Your Team. 1. Create real clarity about what matters most and why.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Food waste is a $2.6 trillion problem globally as some 40% of food is wasted annually. Full Harvest believes this is a distribution problem that can be solved by digitizing the produce supply chain. The San Francisco-based company’s produce business-to-business marketplace provides a way for produce buyers and sellers to quickly close deals on surplus or imperfect crops in just a few clicks.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Hevo Data, a SaaS startup that is helping firms collate troves of data they generate and accumulate to make better use of them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth. Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco and Bangalore-headquartered startup’s $30 million Series B round. A number of investors, including Qualgro, Lachy Groom and Chiratae Ventures, also participated in the round, which pushes the five-year-old startup’s all-time funding to $43
Xebia
DECEMBER 17, 2021
TLDR: if you do sprints you might not be actually doing Agile. At the same time, separating your process into development and delivery phases doesn’t necessarily mean you’re doing it wrong. However, hiding the actual methodology you are practicing under labels may do more harm than good. And if your organization’s development process performs linearly, don’t bury it under the agile elements. .
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2021
As companies get employees back into offices, startups like New York-based foodtech company Fraîche aims to be the brand feature that welcomes them back. Today, the company, founded in 2019, announced $2 million in seed funding by backers that included La Boulange’s Pascal Rigo, Petrus Winery’s Jean Moueix, Bakerly’s Bruno and Julien Caron and the Newlab.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 17, 2021
The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. Outstanding performance starts with clear performance expectations —a shared understanding of what success looks like. But what do you do when a critical player on your team is doing “okay,” but not great? Or, perhaps you’ve relaxed your performance expectations because of all the stress and strain of this crazy year , but now the lower bar has become the new normal.
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.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. To close out the year, Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex headed to the mic with Grace and Chris behind the scenes. We got to our favorite topics, and honestly, got a chance to just laugh our way through the final innings of the year.
Aqua Security
DECEMBER 17, 2021
This blog was co-authored with Ori Glassman, a security researcher at Aqua Security. Until last week, Log4j was just a popular Java logging framework, one of the numerous components that run in the background of many modern web applications. But since a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was published, Log4j has made a huge impact on the security community as researchers found that it’s vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Fees on the Nubank IPO were among the lowest of the year, Bloomberg revealed this week. Of the $2.6 billion the Brazilian fintech’s parent company, Nu Holdings, raised in the operation, only 1.6% are going to its underwriters, which included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and others. “Among 490 IPOs in the U.S. so far this year, only three paid a smaller percentage,” Bloomberg noted.
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Today’s remote work world calls for a closer look at how to measure software developer productivity. Currently, there is no standard metric and widely used methods are flawed. The author describes how they successfully lead 500+ remote software developers by measuring outcomes, rather than outputs in order to produce the ideal balance between speed and quality code development.
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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.
CEO Insider
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Sport usually brings people, cultures, and businesses together from all walks of life. Ironically, at the heart of the global sports industry, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are often neglected by organisations who treat them as little more than keywords as part of compulsory corporate training. However, when you understand the value of DEI, and […].
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 17, 2021
After two years of mainly virtual events, the majority of cloud and IT Ops conferences in 2022 will be in-person events, although some organizers have decided to hold a combination of in-person and virtual events.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Red Hat this week announced a public beta of an Image Builder service that streamlines the process of building customized instances of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. Scott Herold, director of product management for RHEL at Red Hat, said the Image Builder service enables an IT team to define a “gold” template […]. The post Red Hat Adds Service to Customize RHEL Images appeared first on DevOps.com.
Dzone - DevOps
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Ever since Amazon Web Services debuted in 2008, builders of complex engineering software systems have had increasingly powerful ways to scale heavy computational workloads in the cloud. Calculations that previously would have required the purchase of dozens of expensive servers can now be executed at a fraction of the cost in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
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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.
Radixweb
DECEMBER 17, 2021
If you are looking to enhance your experience in frontend development, you are not alone in this race. With the same goal, the creator of Vue, Evan You, came up with the new tool called Vite.js. He calls it – the next generation of frontend tooling. A build tool – Vite or Vite.
Tenable
DECEMBER 17, 2021
CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-4104: Frequently Asked Questions About Log4Shell and Associated Vulnerabilities. Satnam Narang. Fri, 12/17/2021 - 16:35. A list of frequently asked questions related to Log4Shell and associated vulnerabilities. Background. Following the discovery of the Apache Log4j vulnerability known as Log4Shell on December 9, The Security Response Team has put together the following blog post to answer some of the more frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Log4Shell
Sunflower Lab
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Bloom Automation. Automating From the Bottom Up Citizen developers play a vital role in helping you scale your RPA strategy. The idea of knowledge workers being the force behind robotic process automation is becoming increasingly popular as more and more companies pursue digital transformation and intelligent automation. This grassroots approach is a great way to empower your knowledge workers to learn a new skill and offload their boring, rule-based tasks on a software robot.
Lacework
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Editor’s Note: Log4j is an unfolding situation that we are closely monitoring. We will be updating our blog on a regular basis so check back for updates. The disclosure of a critical vulnerability with pervasive impact across the internet and cloud computing is something that makes our hearts sink. Last week was no exception. Apache [.]. Read More. from Log4J Vulnerability: Using Behavioral Anomaly Detection to Spot Active Attacks.
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Dzone - DevOps
DECEMBER 17, 2021
In today’s fast-paced software world, organizations need to deliver fast, as fast as multiple times per day. Agile methodologies and DevOps culture have contributed to enabling this constant delivery. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is an almost basic requirement for any company that wants to remain competitive in the market. CI/CD allows the delivery of code changes more frequently and reliably by automating the required steps to take a working piece of software to a prod
Cloudera
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Manoj Shanmugasundaram has been with Cloudera for 5 and a half years bringing his talents to our Solutions Engineering team. . As a Principal Solutions Engineer, he says his core responsibility is “to take Cloudera’s latest and greatest technology and meet a customer’s complex business requirements, across the data lifecycle, on any cloud or the datacenter.”.
Dzone - DevOps
DECEMBER 17, 2021
This article was p ublished with permission by Justin Reynolds. To compete in today’s market, software companies need to create programs that are free of bugs and vulnerabilities.
CloudZero
DECEMBER 17, 2021
If IT Financial Management (ITFM) was as simple as widely presumed, we’d be seeing IT expenditure dropping globally with the continued adoption of cloud services.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Configurations are attributes needed by an application when it runs. These configurations are values that are used frequently across the application. They may be used to provide dynamic behavior of an application based on customer, geographical region, language, and locale. Frequently used configurations are database URL, username, password, etc. These values are not hardcoded along with the application code as they may change depending on different factors.
CircleCI
DECEMBER 17, 2021
If you are already a GitHub user, you may know that GitHub Actions provides you with powerful tools to increase efficiencies in your software delivery life cycle. Actions can be impactful for team collaborations and process simplification. For example, you can automate things like building a container, welcoming new users to your open source projects, managing branches, or triaging issues.
Ivanti
DECEMBER 17, 2021
At Ivanti, we are committed to delivering innovative, high quality and secure solutions for our customers. Part of this is ensuring our customers are aware of the latest cyber threats, which must be met with agility and action. A vulnerability was reported on the 10th of December 2021 in the open-source Java logging library (log4j), in Log4j-core versions between 2.0.0 and 2.14.1.
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