Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs. Often companies struggle with these transformations and a primary reason for these problems is that engineering organization has neglected to provide developers with an effective working environment. The key to to developing an effective environment is to concentrate on feedback loops.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications. Oxbotica , the Oxford, England startup that builds what it calls “universal autonomy” — flexible technology that it says can power the nav
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Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
Unmesh has a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems ready to share with the world. In this one he looks at the problem of a large cluster, one that is too large to effectively maintain strong consistency, yet needs to maintain some data in a strongly consistent way. It can do this by using a smaller cluster, which he calls a Consistent Core.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Over the next few weeks, the venture capital industry will compile and release data concerning its Q4 2020 performance, capping a year that saw the world of private capital freeze , thaw and burn. But we can get a peek at a critical part of the VC universe early, thanks to a preview of global fintech investment results from CB Insights. The dataset deals with worldwide investments into fintech companies from the start of October through December 12th.
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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.
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 5, 2021
The work of an Agile Coach is very versatile. Agile transformations are as well. Each team has its own fingerprint and organisations are one of a kind. This is what makes our work so interesting. One of the challenges of an Agile coach is to stay objective and keep one eye on the horizon. As … Continued. The post 16 Tips to Keep Focused on an Agile Journey first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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Netlify
JANUARY 5, 2021
I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” At the time, I had never written an article, been to a conference, or participated in open source. I thought it sounded amazing. You see, I switched careers from teaching but still had a latent passion that was mainly used to mentor internally at the companies I worked at, however not as much as I would have liked.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Coral reefs all over the world are struggling to survive, with millions of people and billions of dollars in business that rely on them at risk — on top of the fundamental tragedy of losing such a crucial ecosystem. Coral Vita aims to modernize both coral restoration techniques and the economy surrounding them, and has raised a $2 million seed round to kick things off in earnest.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 5, 2021
Whether a company is creating mobile applications for e-commerce, customer service or internally to boost employee productivity, the rapid development and effective deployment of mobile apps has become a business imperative. The global mobile application market was estimated at $106 billion in 2018 and is expected to hit $407 billion by 2026; an annual growth […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Pokèmon Go creator Niantic has acquired a small SF gaming startup building a league and tournament organization platform to help gamers create their own communities around popular titles. Mayhem was in Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch and went onto raise $5.7 million in funding according to Crunchbase. Other backers include Accel, which led the startup’s Series A in 2018, Afore Capital and NextGen Venture Partners.
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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.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 5, 2021
Digital transformation has been a complex endeavor since businesses first started going down this path, and it's not getting any simpler. The technology landscape runs from mainframe to PC, from mobile to server, and from on-premises operations to the cloud, with most organizations running some combination of the above.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
More than two years ago, Ludwig Schoenack, Nikolaus Volk and Francesco Wiedemann looked at the bevy of scooter services, ride-hailing apps, public transit and car-sharing options available in most urban centers in the United States and saw a gap in the mobility market. Consumers who didn’t want to own a car, but needed one for a few days or weeks had two options: head to a car rental center, likely located at an airport or outside the city center, or turn to a car-sharing platform.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 5, 2021
As DevSecOps best practices continue to evolve and mature in 2021, security orchestration is emerging as a cornerstone of a solid defense-in-depth approach to application security. DevSecOps assumes organizations will shift responsibility for application security further left toward developers. If this assumption is correct, then developers clearly need access to a range of code analysis […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Chronosphere , the scalable cloud native monitoring tool launched in 2019 by two former Uber engineers, announced a $43.4 million Series B today. The company also announced that their service was generally available starting today. Greylock, Lux Capital and venture capitalist Lee Fixel, all of whom participated in the startup’s $11 million Series A in 2019, led the round with participation from new investor General Atlantic.
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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.
Teradata
JANUARY 5, 2021
By leveraging data to create a 360 degree view of its citizenry, government agencies can create more optimal experiences & improve outcomes such as closing the tax gap or improving quality of care.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
The rise of distributed teams in response to the coronavirus has led to more video-conferencing meetings for all of us. As offices remain closed, distributed work is forcing companies to figure out a better way than Zoom or Google Hangouts to meet with employees across time zones and teams. Rewatch wants to make meetings more efficient, and maybe even shorter.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 5, 2021
Postpone/reschedule, go virtual, or cancel outright—these were the options many conference organizers faced in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. And many of these organizers are still trying to figure out how to stage their 2021 events.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Hinge Health , the San Francisco-based company that offers a digital solution to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions — such as back and joint pain — has closed a $310 million in Series D funding, according to sources. The round is led by Coatue and Tiger Global, and values 2015-founded Hinge at $3 billion post-money, people familiar with the investment tell me.
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“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.
Dataiku
JANUARY 5, 2021
Imagine you’re in a landlocked country, and a mystery infection has spread. The government has fallen, and rebels are roaming the country. If you’re the armed forces in this scenario, how do you make decisions in this environment? How can you fully understand the situation at hand?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Virgin Orbit is wasting no time in 2021 getting back to active flight testing: The company has a window for its next orbital demonstration launch attempt that opens on Sunday, January 10, and that continues throughout the rest of the month. This follows an attempt last year made in May, which ended before the LauncherOne rocket reached orbit — shortly after it detached from the Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft, in fact.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 5, 2021
It’s a new year- but not much has changed. How do you keep your team energized and motivated as the schlog continues? I was snowshoeing with a friend the other day, and she told me how worried she was about her team. […]. The post How Do I Keep My Team Energized and Motivated in the Schlog? #AskingForAFriend appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Procter & Gamble will not acquire women’s beauty products startup Billie, as previously planned , following action taken by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to stop the deal from proceeding. In December, the FTC sued to block P&G’s acquisition of the New York-based startup Billie, a maker of women’s razors and other beauty products, on the grounds that the merger would eliminate competition in the wet shave razor market.
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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
JANUARY 5, 2021
Hadi Hariri, among many other things, is responsible for Ktor's product management @ JetBrains and in this opening episode of the Continuous Integration From The Trench series, we're chatting about how the Ktor project is being developed and built.
Data Virtualization
JANUARY 5, 2021
In this post, I would like to share some ideas about how data virtualization and the Denodo Platform can be helpful in the exciting new world of edge computing, or the Internet of Things (IoT). The idea of the.
The Daily WTF
JANUARY 5, 2021
"Hey," someone on Russell F 's team said. "We should add some keyboard navigation to our web app." That struck everyone as an "easy win", specifically because they were really talking about making "enter" and "escape" do something useful. They wrote some quick requirements, passed it off, and the developer submitted a surprisingly long pull request.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 5, 2021
The last month of the old year showed a lot of activity on the border of AI and biology. The advances in protein folding with deep learning are a huge breakthrough that could revolutionize drug design. It’s important to remember the role AI had in developing the vaccine for COVID—and also worth remembering that we still don’t have an anti-viral. And while I didn’t list them, the other big trend has been all the lawyers lining up to take shots at Google, Facebook, et al.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 5, 2021
Andre Pino, DevOps industry leader, joins as COO/CMO and Mitchell Ashley, Accelerated Strategy Group Founder, joins as CTO to drive growth of award-winning MediaOps BOCA RATON, Fla., January 5, 2021 — MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, today announced the appointment of two key executives to the team. Andre Pino […].
Kaseya
JANUARY 5, 2021
It goes without saying that 2020 has been quite a year, with each month feeling like it has tried to top the last. And while 2021 may not start off much different, it will hopefully end on a higher note than it began. For MSPs looking ahead to the year to come, there are many lessons to be learned from what just transpired. In the IT world, the pandemic didn’t necessarily start any major new trends as much as it accelerated those already in progress.
Apiumhub
JANUARY 5, 2021
Two of the biggest challenges in times of change are usually motivation and stress management strategies. During the pandemic, I did my own research with my one-on-one coaching clients over a six-month period. Here are the reasons people came to me: 28 times motivational challenges. 20 times stress management issues. 15 times loneliness and/or depression. 12 times self- and time-management challenges.
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