Wed.Nov 24, 2021

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Juicy Marbles gets $4.5M to sizzle up plant-based steaks

TechCrunch

Convincing meat eaters to adopt a climate-friendly diet might get a little easier thanks to Slovenian startup Juicy Marbles , which has come up with a way to create plant-based whole meat cuts, if that doesn’t sound too oxymoronic. ‘Fancy Plant Meat’ is its pithier pitch for a product that aims to provide a vegan alternative to eating a filet mignon steak or other ‘prime’ cuts of (animal) flesh.

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Measuring Software Delivery Performance using the Four Key Metrics of DevOps

Agile Alliance

While many organizations embark on agile transformations, they lack insight into the actual impact of these transformations across organisational layers. In this paper, we collect new and study existing evidence on the impact of agile transformations on organisational performance across teams, programs, and portfolios. We conducted an international survey collecting the perceptions of agile coaches, … Continued.

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India’s Spinny valued at over $1.75 billion in $280 million funding

TechCrunch

Spinny, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates a platform to facilitate the purchase and sale of used cars , is the latest firm to become a unicorn in the world’s second-largest internet market. Spinny has raised more than $280 million in its Series E financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The round, which is co-led by Tiger Global and Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, values Spinny at over $1.75 billion post-money, the source said.

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Agile Alliance Initiatives

Agile Alliance

Join the Agile Alliance board of directors to learn more about how Agile Alliance fulfills its mission to support people and organizations who explore, apply and expand Agile values, principles and practices. We’ll also highlight the work done by the following volunteer initiatives, made possible through your membership: Building Future Leaders and Change Agents, Agile … Continued.

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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. 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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TabTrader raises $5.8M for a mobile app that aggregates crypto exchange data

TechCrunch

As many of the top cryptocurrencies seem to temporarily stabilize near all-time highs, users looking to speculate on tokens that are a bit more volatile are searching across exchanges to find deals. Amsterdam-based startup TabTrader has been capitalizing on this search with a platform that aggregates prices and token availability across dozens of exchanges.

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Longevica takes in $2.5M as it launches open research resources to examine life extension

TechCrunch

Life science company Longevica said Wednesday it is launching an open research tool so scientists and research institutions can access a data set that tracks the effects of more than 1,000 pharmacological compounds for testing drugs. This is the latest effort from the biotechnology company, which is researching mechanisms of healthy aging and life extension.

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Microservices Will Save Your Life and Other Lies

Agile Alliance

The software development industry is often the home of grandiose claims, that framework X will change how we all write software, that process Y will solve all of our software development woes, that technology Z will change the world, and others. Sometimes these claims are true. Other times they aren’t. How do you tell which … Continued. The post Microservices Will Save Your Life and Other Lies first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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As human capital grows scarce, flexible compensation can help attract and retain talent

TechCrunch

Boyd Davis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Boyd Davis is the CEO and co-founder of Compright , a cloud-based compensation planning tool. Previously, Boyd helped organizations deploy solutions that leveraged data and AI. The Great Resignation is among the most significant events in recent U.S. history. We are seeing a post-COVID-19 generation refusing to work under the same conditions as they did before.

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Cross functional understanding and empathy continuous improvement

Agile Alliance

Do your teams continuously improve their cross functional understanding and empathy? A practice recently employed by our teams has created a mutual understanding that I did not think possible before. In this session we will find people in the audience within different professions and roles within an organization and utilize this method to bring understanding … Continued.

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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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How Pilot convinced Index Ventures to think long-term about margins

TechCrunch

On a recently recorded (and soon-to-be published) episode of the Found podcast , an entrepreneur told my co-host and me that he sees a broad swath of the venture capitalists out there as money managers, more focused on short-term gains and returns than long-term revolutionary technology. Whether you agree or not, it’s hard to ignore the fact that the multipliers in Silicon Valley and the growth of software businesses have changed the way we think about a startup’s timeline. “Th

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Digital Transformation Driving VSM Adoption

DevOps.com

The number of organizations using value stream management (VSM) to bridge the divide between DevOps and the rest of the business is expected to dramatically increase over the next two years. The shift is due, in part, to investments in digital business transformation initiatives. A survey of more than 500 executives, IT and business leaders […].

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Tiamat Sciences cooking up plant-based proteins for cheaper production of cellular meat

TechCrunch

Cellular growth medium is a component of cellular agriculture that enables lab-grown meat to be made at a lower cost. However, the traditional ways of making these growth factors, or reagents, are costly themselves, which makes large-scale manufacturing difficult. On average, reports show that lab-grown meat costs about $50 , but that new technologies could bring that down to a more reasonable $3 per pound by 2030.

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Gratitude at Work: How to Cultivate a Grateful Culture (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Want More Gratitude at Work, Help Your Team Be More Deliberate with These Practical Tips. I had an opportunity to interview Kerry Wekelo , author of Gratitude Infusion, during the vortex of the pandemic, for practical tips on cultivating gratitude at work. My guess is that you might have missed this one. So, I’m sharing this short Asking for a Friend conversation, along with a recent interview to hear her new insights about gratitude at work.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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Afterpay unveils BNPL subscription offering for US customers

TechCrunch

“Buy now, pay later” company Afterpay announced Wednesday that it was going after the $1.5 trillion global subscription payments market by offering to its U.S. customers payment installments for subscriptions, like gym memberships, entertainment subscriptions and online services. The service will launch in both the U.S. and Australia beginning early in 2022 and will be free for customers who pay on time.

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Pacts to the rescue! How to escape integration testing hell

Agile Alliance

Microservices and APIs have become mainstream now. We're able to respond to changing requirements and ship code to production more quickly than ever. Or, we are for our first few APIs. But 5 years down the track, what happens when we end up with tens or hundreds of APIs that are now part of our … Continued. The post Pacts to the rescue! How to escape integration testing hell first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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In a crowded global market, Canadian AI startups’ fundraising results stand out

TechCrunch

It’s boom times for startups building with or atop AI functionality: The Exchange explored the rise in venture capital dollars for AI startups last week, noting that investment into the business niche set all-time records in Q4 2020, and then successively in quarters one, two and three in 2021. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Prometheus is here to stay—make it part of your IT Ops monitoring

TechBeacon

Prometheus has emerged as one of the most popular open-source infrastructure monitoring tools ever. It's become a de facto industry standard for monitoring cloud applications and infrastructure, particularly those built with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes. You should use it.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Five Covid-19 leadership behaviours to maintain in 2022

CEO Insider

Covid-19 has undoubtedly cast an enormous shadow globally, but it has also reshaped leadership. Rewind two years and some leaders were already embracing behaviors like servant leadership, and new approaches, like hybrid working. As a global people development company, at Insights we put our people firmly at the center of everything we do and work […].

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Using AI to Improve Demand Forecasts for the Peak Season

Dataiku

This is a blog post from our friends at Aimpoint Digital. Aimpoint Digital is a leading advanced analytics, data science, and engineering services firm that operates as the trusted advisor for companies looking to extract tangible value from data.

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What you Need to Know About PCI DSS Compliance in Cloud Native

Aqua Security

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a well-known compliance framework for any organization handling payment card data. However, translating the PCI DSS requirements into the world of containers and Kubernetes can be overwhelming. In this post, we break down how containerized applications impact PCI DSS compliance and how to meet its requirements in a cloud native environment.

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Propensity Matching to Create an Unbiased Training Set

Dataiku

As data scientists, we work on solving various business problems to make predictions on a given population where there isn’t a very easy (and cost effective) way of knowing if you have a true representative training set for the unlabeled population. For this blog, I am trying to predict the census tracts in the U.S. that will have above average counts of people who suffer from diabetes based on their social determinants of health.

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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 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.

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WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm. The post WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Why Healthcare Systems Need To Prioritize Cybersecurity

Daffodil Software

Healthcare platforms are under constant threat from cyberattacks, putting patient safety at risk. This is why C-suite stakeholders, Chief Information Officers (CIO), and senior leaders of healthcare outfits need to stop viewing cybersecurity as a purely technical issue. Patient information security, enterprise integrity, and strategic priorities are all reliant on cybersecurity.

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Does AI Decision-Making Drive Your Business?

DataRobot

It should. By the year 2030, AI will deliver economic growth of $15.7 trillion, according to PwC Research. Does your business need: To target its customers more precisely? Reduce its operational costs? Develop exciting new products? Increase the reliability of its supply chain? Whatever its requirements, applying data-driven AI strategies can help. Let’s look at some examples to see how AI applications can aid any organization, large or small. .

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Top title alert! Ivanti recognized by Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Best Practices Award as Asia-Pacific Secure Remote Access Company of the Year

Ivanti

We’re thrilled to announce that Frost & Sullivan has awarded the 2021 Asia-Pacific Company of the Year Award for secure remote access to Pulse Secure (acquired by Ivanti). In determining awards, Frost & Sullivan “applies a rigorous analytical process” that includes “detailed evaluation of best practices criteria.”. Best practices for world-class performance.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Balancing UX and Security - The Complete Checklist

Cabot Solutions

Here is a checklist for balancing user experience and security in the overall performance of your website Read more to know about the UX security components in detail

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How Immutable NAS Offers Cost-Effective Ransomware-proof Storage for Unstructured Data and Backup Targets

Arcserve

MarketWatch says the global network-attached storage (NAS) market will grow at an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 28 percent between 2021 and 2027. Much of that market growth can be attributed to the massive increase in data generated by organizations everywhere. That isn’t much different from the global projections for the cloud.

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What “The Great British Baking Show” teaches us about teamwork in software development

Gitprime

“The Great British Baking Show” inspires millions of viewers around the globe. Find out how it’s inspiring better teamwork and communication on tech teams.