Dataiku

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

For many years, AI was an experimental risk for companies. Today, AI is not a brand new concept and most enterprises have at least explored AI implementation. As of 2020, 68% of enterprises had used AI, having already adopted AI applications or introduced AI on some level into their business processes. So, where does AI stand moving forward? Recently, Dataiku spoke with Mike Gualtieri, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester , in “The Future of AI and ROI for the Enterprise, featuring Forrester”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. However , expensive value-added services like credit cards do not necessarily address the needs of underbanked people.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

AIOps remains in the pilot phase within many organizations that have yet to determine what it can offer. The issue most face is how to find the time and money to select an AIOps technology stack that will succeed the first time. The technology itself is scary.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Many real estate technology companies are developing technology that is in competition with, or could potentially replace, real estate agents. One startup that aims to help agents succeed and flourish with its technology and “bundled business services,” Place , has raised $100 million in a Series A round at a valuation north of $1 billion. Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s growth equity business led the investment, which included participation from 3L Capital.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Companies continue to grapple with how to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology in a way that doesn’t compromise privacy and that takes into account other key ethical considerations. It is undeniable that AI is one of the fastest-growing categories today. But if we are unable to build tools that live up to high ethical standards, […]. The post 4 Keys to Developing Ethical AI appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Kovair - DevOps

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Views: 40 Imprecise implementation or Cultural misinterpretation may have you missing the true benefits of DevOps DevOps is a huge buzzword in software engineering. Often.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Cashflow management startup Settle announced its second round of funding in five months, this time $60 million in Series B financing as it aims to carve out a niche in the $25 trillion business-to-business payments market. Settle was founded by Alek Koenig in 2019, after spending four years as head of credit at Affirm, to provide alternative lending to businesses.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Value stream optimization (VSO) is an inherently complicated and challenging process of enhancing the efficiency of your business’s value stream mapping. You can brief yourself on the basics of software value streams here but, essentially, VSO enables businesses and brands to streamline their product flow from the supplier to their customer base by improving operational efficiencies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A team of Google executives, many of whom worked with one another for years, left the company earlier this year to launch a startup. The fintech firm, Arbo Works, has raised a financing round led by Sequoia Capital India, the two said Thursday. Arbo Works , spearheaded by Caesar Sengupta, said on Thursday 120 angel investors, many from Google, participated in the seed financing round. “This group includes CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, founders of successful startups, senior executives fro

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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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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Yes, I know, we should all be terminal ninjas, memorizing every git command, yadda yadda. Or, like the caveman, we could put two sticks together (or in this case, VS Code) and create fire (aka use the UI) to work with Git via amazing extensions that not only make working with Git easier but also extend Git with cool new features and superpowers! Git Graph — Popular.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Netlify came early to the idea of separating front-end design and back-end business processes on websites. It embraced Jamstack and microservices when those technologies were not well understood. It’s a fairly common way to build a website today, but it wasn’t always the case when they started. Perhaps that knowledge and understanding is what attracted investors to the company.

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Darktrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As Arrow McLaren SP looks back on a positive season, the team reflect on their key challenges and successes – and explain how AI and automation is leveraged in every aspect of their work – from driver simulation to cyber security.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Centered is an app that’s designed to help you find your flow throughout the day, guard your calendar so you can get some work done and add a personal assistant to help keep you on track. The app lets you do a virtual hang with others trying to get some work done, and plays some soothing beats to trick your brain into getting work done. The company just launched its product and raised $3.9 million to bring some sanity back to your workday.

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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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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

GraphQL, the query language invented by Facebook, has attracted a lot of interest as a means to conveniently access data programmatically. GraphQL structures internal services with a unified schema for data, empowering product engineers to easily grab what they want from many microservices to populate the user interfaces (UIs) they’re creating.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Jiko , a fintech startup that uses customer deposits to purchase short-term treasury bills, announced its first banking-as-a-service (BaaS) client today. It will partner with Euphoria , a technology suite for the transgender community that helps alleviate the struggles associated with gender transition, to launch a banking app called Bliss. . Between 2-6 million people in the United States identify as transgender, and 34% lack identification to match their gender, making it harder for them to ac

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Techstrong Group has unveiled the list of finalists for the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021 and has officially opened public voting to determine the winners in each of the 24 award categories. Boca Raton, Fla.—November 17, 2021—Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, has announced the finalists for the 24 categories in the seventh […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 million seed round led by Heroic Ventures. The round included participation from TI Platform Ventures, LDVP, Partech, Diaspora Ventures, Breega, and Kima Ventures. The Clubhouse-like app launched two years ago and currently has 1.2 million active users. Picslo Corp CEO, Stephane Giraudie, previously founded VoIP web conferencing software Voxeet, which was later acquired by Dolby and became the basis for Dolby.io.

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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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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

DevOps accelerated the pace of software delivery and ensured the creation of a flexible environment. As a result, productivity enhanced, costs reduced, the period from conception to realization shortened, failure rate decreased, and recovery fastened. DevOps is an integral part of the development process. It ensures the seamless delivery of even the most complex solutions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months. Today, a startup called Laminar is coming out of stealth with $37 million in funding with a solution to address how that issue plays out in public cloud architecture, specifically with ‘agent-less’ technology i

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Blockchain is an emerging software architecture that has the potential to be a big disruptor in the industry. With change however, comes the added risk of quality issues. As developers and test engineers, we need to be prepared for those changes to better adapt to the new technology and allow for the continued development of software and products through it, without compromising on quality.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Following a Covid-driven boost, the popular AllTrails resource for hikers, bikers, climbers, and anyone else who enjoys the outdoors, announced today it’s raised $150 million from the growth fund of global private equity firm Permira to further accelerate its business. Prior investor Spectrum Equity will continue to be the company’s largest shareholder, following this transaction.

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Synopsys

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Protect your organization from the Trojan Source exploit with fast and trusted vulnerability detection from Rapid Scan Static. The post Don’t let Trojan Source sneak into your code appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nexar , a company best-known for its line of smart dash cams, has raised $53 million in a Series D financing round led by Qumra Capital. The funds will be used, in part, to scale its “digital twin” service built off crowdsourced dash cam footage for automotive OEMs and cities. The round also saw participation from State Farm Ventures, Catalyst, Banca Generali, Valor and previous investors Atreides Management, Corner Ventures, Regah Ventures and Aleph.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LogicMonitor today announced it will provide an option that allows IT organizations to retain an unlimited amount of log data on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Tej Redkar, chief product officer at LogicMonitor, said one of the issues that is holding back advances in observability is the cost of storing log data. LogicMonitor has decided to […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Tanay Jaipuria. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tanay Jaipuria is a product manager and angel investor who writes a weekly newsletter on business and technology. Every marketplace or platform startup has to decide how much they should charge for transactions on their platform, known as the “take rate.” While there is no formula set in stone, I’ve analyzed the take rates of over 25 private and public marketplaces below.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Code concurrency is a default in any Rails code. A threaded web server will simultaneously serve many HTTP requests, and each will hold its controller instance. Threaded active job adapters and action cable channels also handle multiple requests simultaneously. Even when the global process space is shared, work for each instance is managed separately.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. The impressive ‘Star Wars’ demonstration took the crowd by storm. It was quite the demo (see the video below). The underlying technology was based on post-graduate research from inventor – and still CEO – Tom Carter.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Needless to say—modern software is complex, increasingly so. Hardware infrastructures connect with other software platforms, all of which can fail. Even with careful design and extensive testing, incidents happen. An incident happens any time software behaves differently than what is expected. It can be as simple as one user not being able to download a CSV file, or it can be as severe as none of the users of an application being able to log in.

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