TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
There are plenty of competitors in so-called FMS (Farm Management Software), but so far no global dominant leader has emerged. Agrivi has raised $7.3 million, Granular $24.9 million and FarmLogs $37 million. So there’s clearly plenty of scope for more. Now Estonia-based eAgronom , another FMS startup, has closed a $7.4 million Series A round led by Yolo Investments and ZGI Capital.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Mob programming is an extremely effective way to develop software, not only in-person, but also remotely. Over the past year, my team and I have been exploring ways to collaborate while working remotely. While there are some requisites to make remote mob programming effective, I have found it to be a surprisingly productive way to … Continued.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Kenya-based EV startup BasiGo has closed $4.3 million in seed funding, three months after setting up operations in East Africa’s biggest economy , to provide clean-energy mass transit vehicles in a country that is heavily-reliant on fossil-fuel buses. The startup said it will use the new funding to set up an assembly plant in Nairobi and launch the sales and delivery of its electric buses.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
A pharmaceutical company (Roche Pharma Finland Oy) decided to transform their Operating model in late 2018. The implementation phase of the new Operating Model started in November 2019. The CEO of the company had three primary goals for the change: To become more customer-driven instead of being product-centric To transform the organisation from a pyramid … Continued.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Meal deliveries in Vietnamese cities typically take less than half an hour, but grocery deliveries are lagging behind, sometimes taking up to two to three hours, says Rino founder Trung Thanh Nguyen. By creating a vertically-integrated logistics infrastructure centered around “dark stores,” or stores set up for order fulfillment only, Nguyen says Rino can cut grocery delivery times down to just 10 minutes.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Consumers spent more than $8.5 billion in 2020 on camping reservations across the U.S., but the camping industry itself has yet to be fully digitized. Today, reserving a space at some campgrounds, both public and private, may require a phone call. And the reservation itself is still often recorded using old-school systems, like pen and paper. A startup called S?
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Feature Toggles are mainly known for and used as an enabler for Trunk based Development which promotes and enables continuous integration(CI). In recent times, Trunk based Development has gained immense attention and with the help of feature toggles, it is now also used for seamless integration of critical business functions and for enabling differentiations.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Vicarius , a New York-based startup that has developed an autonomous vulnerability remediation platform, has raised $24 million in Series A funding to protect organizations from the next major supply-chain attack. The current vulnerability remediation situation isn’t working, Vicarius tells TechCrunch. It’s a process split between two departments — security teams, which identify and prioritize vulnerabilities, and IT, which remediate them while focusing on keeping operations running smoothly, cr
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
As we celebrate Black History Month, for this Employee Spotlight I sat down with Marque Blackman, co-lead of the Cloudera Black Employee Network (CBEN). We discussed his experience at Cloudera, his career transitions, and what he learned along the way. We also discussed his work with CBEN and his perspective on Black History Month. Meet Marque Blackman, Director of Global Workplace .
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Rahil Sondhi has been coding since he was 10 years old, and even when his career took him in the direction of an engineer, he was still writing a lot of SQL and working with data. That’s when he realized that many of the tools he was using were tedious, clunky and slow — basically none of the traits anyone wants in their software. Most importantly, they didn’t help with the subsequent tasks in the workflow, Sondhi told TechCrunch.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The pandemic highlighted many things, not least of which was the shift in consumer behavior toward further encouraging companies to change their operations and act with sustainability in mind. An overwhelming 96% of businesses said the pandemic shifted their focus to the social component of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies. Technology has been a key […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. The online meal kit delivery market is poised to be a $7 billion industry by the end of this year, and then triple in the next five years. That has attracted venture capitalists’ attention and led to some recent cash infusions, including Shef and WoodSpoon for homemade items, and Little Spoon and Serenity Kids in the baby food arena.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Had enough change yet? It is almost amusing that I and some other tech people had that conversation a decade ago, and since then, nothing has slowed down. Our conclusion was that, for the near future, change would be constant. That conclusion was right; I’d have to ping everyone else to see what they think, […]. The post No Matter How Things Change, Have a Plan appeared first on DevOps.com.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Consumers and businesses are forever demanding faster and easier ways to get things done, and today a startup that is building tech to make that a reality using AI and the camera on your mobile device is announcing a big round of growth funding. Scandit — which uses computer vision to scan barcodes, text, ID cards or any physical object to trigger automated responses, provide analytics and more — has raised $150 million, a Series D that values the Swiss startup values at over $1 bill
xmatters
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
What makes an engineering team? Communication, collaboration, process, order, and common goals. Otherwise, they would just be a bunch of engineers. The same is true of their tools. Connectivity and process turn a bunch of tools into a DevOps toolchain. If you need a DevOp toolchain, you can use it to easily build an incident response process. A toolchain is a series of integrations between different tools that are part of your infrastructure or work environment.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs. More recently, the rise of virtual HQs, Meta’s investment in interactive social software, and a handful of acquisitions by Microsoft signal that the metaverse could play a role in the future of work as well.
Daffodil Software
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The Internet of Things (IoT) sees most of its usage in the domain of asset tracking. Companies can make better decisions about their products if they can keep track of where their precious cargo is and therefore, location-based applications of IoT have always been dominant use cases.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, February 9, 2022! I just got a look at the initial run-of-show for Early Stage in April , and it looks wicked good. Also, I’m helping kick off our live podcast tapings tomorrow with the Equity crew.
MagmaLabs
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes Google Tag Manager (also known as GTM) is a free tag management solution provided by Google. Through this online tool, you can reply and manage various marketing and analytics tags on a website or mobile app. So, why Google Tag Manager exists? Read this to learn why, and to know how to start using it for your marketing strategies!
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Michael Redd. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Michael Redd spent 12 seasons playing in the NBA and on the U.S. Olympic team. He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. The Theranos scandal demonstrates how quickly investors will fall over themselves to seize a golden egg deal. When investors pay so much attention to only the (supposed) big tickets, they leave smaller companies in their portfolios behind.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself reading various “2022 Predictions” lists covering everything from the healthcare market getting simplified for patients, all the way to how Crypto will take over the world. I’ve seen predictions on personal identity, and solutions-based articles on how we solve the unprecedented global demand for software engineers.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Last year we covered Longevica, which had raised $13 million after researching supplements to increase human wellness and longevity. Then there have been the exits, such as care/of , which raised $12 million and was later acquired by Bayer, and Persona , acquired by Nestlé. Plus, U.K. startup Heights raised a $2 million seed funding round (£1.7 million) via the Seedrs crowdfunding platform last year.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The DevOps culture promotes an understanding between developers and operations that achieving a successful outcome for the software they build requires them to share the responsibility. The efficiencies in this approach help businesses to produce software at an ever-increasing pace.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: When is the H-1B lottery and what can I do if my STEM OPT runs out in June?
The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
For years, Carla 's company had a Java application with a memory leak. No one had the time, energy, or budget to actually do anything about the leak, so they "fixed" it by just forcing a nightly reboot. When Carla asked about the nightly reboot, the elders who had been around for awhile simply said, "there were some issues we couldn't track down." Carla was assigned a task to go track down some of those untrackable issues.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Testing autonomous vehicles on public roads is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor, and one that Raquel Urtasun, former chief scientist at Uber ATG, doesn’t think is the most expedient route to market. Waabi, Urtasun’s self-driving truck technology startup which launched last June , has come out with a key component of its strategy to scale its tech – Waabi World , a high fidelity, closed-loop simulator that doesn’t just virtually test Waabi’s self-driving software, but also teaches i
Ivanti
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Having an Enterprise Architecture practice is critical for three key reasons. Data is a Shared Asset. Every business function needs data and often requires the same data, such as customer, transaction (history) device, end/touch point & employee. If each business function in your company is trying to solve their data challenges separately, your data will be silo’d, inaccurate and untrustworthy.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Darren Shimkus spent five years scaling Udemy, a corporate learning business, from $1 million in annual recurring revenue to $100 million. Eight months before the education company went public, though, Shimkus left his gig as president of Udemy Business to investigate a feeling. “I thought I had innovation to bring to the industry,” he said. “But there’s Darren in what he thinks and in what he sees, and then there is a world that is.
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