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Furthermore, the agreement must be free of undue influence, Curl v.

General Leadership

In Bay Area Peace Navy, we found that a 75-yard security zone “rendered the [plaintiffs’]. demonstration completely ineffective and that passing out pamphlets on land or demonstrating at the entrance to the pier are not viable alternatives because the invited visitors, who are the [plaintiffs’] intended audience, are not accessible from those positions.” 914 F.2d at 1229 (quotation marks omitted).

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African fintech OPay is reportedly raising $400M at over $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today. The fundraising is coming two years after OPay announced two funding rounds in 2019 — $50 million in June and $120 million Series B in November. The $170 million raised so far came from mainly Chinese investors who have collectively begun to bet big on African startups over the past few years.

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Article: ‘Debt’ as a Guide on the Agile Journey: Organizational Debt

InfoQ Culture Methods

In this article in a series on how ‘debt’ can be used to guide an agile journey, we will provide two examples of smells that are related to organizational debt, explain the symptoms, the impact on the business and in our organization, outline the experiments (countermeasures) that we have introduced in an effort to try to remove the smell, and provide some specific advice for you to be inspired.

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Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, raises $3.7M seed

TechCrunch

Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. That’s Skiff , in a nutshell. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Google Docs, allowing you to write, edit and collaborate in real-time with colleagues with privacy baked in. Because the document editor is built on a foundation of end-to-end encryption, Skiff doesn’t have access to anyone’s documents — only users, and those who are invited to collaborate,

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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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3 algorithms and tools changing privacy, security, and compliance

TechBeacon

Absolute security has always been easy. You just pull the disk drive, bury it in a secret location, and then burn the map. Laughing maniacally is optional. The data is secure.

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Why you should be using GQM to measure software quality and value

TechBeacon

Organizations have been measuring output in some form and using it to fine-tune their efforts for ages, yet every generation seems to struggle to identify key metrics. In the software realm, since the first bit of software code was executed successfully in 1948, companies have striven to boost their software’s value and quality, often with mixed results.

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Agicap raises $100 million for its cashflow management service

TechCrunch

French startup Agicap has raised a new $100 million funding round led by Greenoaks. With today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of more than $500 million (€415 million). Agicap is building a service that lets you track your cash flow in real time, build reports and get forecasts. In addition to Greenoaks, existing investors BlackFin Capital Partners and Partech are also participating in the round.

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Digital.ai Deepens Value Stream Management Integration

DevOps.com

Digital.ai announced today it has expanded usage of machine learning algorithms within its namesake value stream management (VSM) platform to include modules to optimize flow and improve application quality in addition to enhancing its risk prediction and process optimization modules. In addition, Digital.ai has expanded the number of pre-built integrations it now provides for hundreds […].

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Engine Biosciences expands its digital drug discovery pipeline with $43M round

TechCrunch

Drug discovery is a large and growing field, encompassing both ambitious startups and billion-dollar Big Pharma incumbents. Engine Biosciences is one of the former, a Singaporean outfit with an expert founding crew and a different approach to the business of finding new therapeutics, and it just raised $43 million to keep growing. Digital drug discovery in general means large-scale analysis of biological data like genes, gene expression, protein structures, binding sites, things like that.

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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 autonomous Cyber AI scaled to protect Arrow McLaren SP

Darktrace

McLaren is unique in competing in both Formula 1 and the NTT INDYCAR Series. Darktrace’s AI has seamlessly scaled and extended to protect both teams from machine-speed cyber-attacks like ransomware, working across different time zones to provide around-the-clock protection with Autonomous Response.

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Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform

TechCrunch

Lightrun , a startup that helps developers debug their live production code, today announced that it has raised a $23 million Series A round led by Insight Partners. Glilot Capital Partners , which led the company’s $4 million seed round , also participated in this round. What makes Lightrun stand out in a sea of monitoring startups is its focus on developers (more so than IT teams) and its ability to help developers debug their production code right from their IDEs.

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How to Build a Team That Embraces Metrics

DevOps.com

When we talk about metrics in software delivery, a lot of developers think of execution metrics — things like throughput, delivery and number of deploys. But in reality, those metrics don’t motivate anyone — at least not without connecting them to a bigger picture. I’ve worked in software for 23 years. I’m a three-time founder […]. The post How to Build a Team That Embraces Metrics appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Tractive raises $35M as it expands GPS pet tracking to the US

TechCrunch

Another sizable raise for a pet (cats and dogs) tracking company this morning. Austria-based Tractive has announced a $35 million Series A, led by Guidepost Growth Equity. The round is the company’s first since 2013, when its GPS-based tracker first hit the market. Along with the funding round, the company is also announcing its official push into the U.S. market — though Tractive has had some presence here through a “soft launch” of an LTE tracker over the summer.

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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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Can Dynamic Sites Go Serverless?

Netlify

Why I migrated my dynamic sites to a serverless architecture. This is a contributed post by Moriel Schottlender. Moriel is a physicist turned software engineer turned systems architect, currently working on modernizing Wikipedia’s architecture. She’s an open source enthusiast, right-to-left language support evangelist, and a general domain hoarder. You can find her as @mooeypoo on Twitter, Polywork , and most other social platforms. _.

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Parametrix Insurance raises $17.5 million to offer cloud downtime insurance

TechCrunch

Insurtech is picking up steam in a big way , but startup Parametrix thinks there is still plenty of room left to innovate. The company, which today announced the close of a $17.5 million funding round, offers insurance policies for companies who rely on third-party cloud providers, ecommerce services, payment gateways and CRM systems. In essence, downtime from one of these services can cost a company millions in revenue, but it’s completely out of their control.

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Try a Semantic Approach to Naming GitHub Repositories

Modus Create

As part of a recent customer engagement, we were tasked with defining a naming convention for GitHub repositories. Up to this point, each project team had used whatever convention (or none) they liked to define the repository name, leading to a situation where there was a lack of consistency across the GitHub organization. I had my own ideas around what conventions made sense, although these are influenced by the type of work I do.

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Italy’s Commerce Layer raises $16M led by Coatue for its headless commerce platform

TechCrunch

“Headless” commerce — a set of tools that companies can use with their own customized front ends to build apps for selling goods and services — have become a huge business, not just because companies are seeing a bigger demand than ever before for people buying online, but because those companies are generally more focused in their own strategies around how and what they want to present to the world.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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JFrog Adds Private Distribution Network for App Binaries

DevOps.com

At its online swampUP conference today, JFrog launched a Private Distribution Network (PDN) that makes it simpler and faster to distribute application binaries across an extended enterprise. Yoav Landman, JFrog CTO, said the PDN provides the equivalent of a content delivery network (CDN) designed specifically for distributing application binaries using a peer-to-peer network managed by […].

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Self-driving truck startup Kodiak partnering with SK Group to expand into Asia

TechCrunch

Kodiak Robotics, the U.S.-based self-driving truck startup, is partnering with South Korean conglomerate SK to explore the possibility of deploying its autonomous vehicle technology in Asia. The ultimate aim of the partnership is to sell and distribute Kodiak’s self-driving technology in the region. Kodiak will examine how it can use SK’s products, components and technology for its autonomous system, including artificial intelligence microprocessors and advanced emergency braking sys

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Running a Successful North Star Metric Workshop for Product Teams

Toptal

A North Star metric is a useful tool that can align and motivate your product team. This guide will help you facilitate a productive, creative workshop that results in a strong metric.

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Prismic raises $20 million for its headless CMS

TechCrunch

Prismic , a company building a content management system, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. While the startup has been profitable since 2016, it wants to unlock the full potential of its headless CMS by iterating more quickly on its product. Aglaé Ventures and Eurazeo are co-leading today’s funding round. Headless content management systems are a bit different from traditional content management systems.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Disaster Recovery For Your Documents

Docuphase

Let’s face it. It’s easy to ignore a hypothetical scenario when you are juggling so many other pressing issues. Our world moves faster today than ever before and it can be difficult to find time to plan for mother nature. The unfortunate reality is that natural disasters occur much more often than people think.

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Uptycs secures $50M Series C as security platform continues to expand

TechCrunch

Uptycs , a Boston-area startup that uses data to help understand and prevent security attacks, announced a $50 million Series C today, 11 months after announcing a $30 million Series B. Norwest Venture Partners led the round with participation from Sapphire Ventures and ServiceNow Ventures. Company co-founder and CEO Ganesh Pai says that he was still well capitalized from last year’s investment, and wasn’t actually looking to raise funds, but the investors came looking for him and he

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Cloud Economics 101: Here's What You Need To Know

CloudZero

Businesses are increasingly interested in the economics of cloud computing. For instance, what are the financial implications of moving to the cloud versus staying on-premises? And what’s the best strategy for optimizing cloud consumption to get the best value from cloud resources?

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Datacy raises $2.4M to help consumers monetize their own damn data

TechCrunch

This morning Datacy , a startup with its headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware , announced that it has closed $2.4 million in new funding to continue building its consumer-friendly data collection and monetization service. The company is effectively an argument that the preceding sentence is possible. Datacy is a tool that allows individuals to collect their browsing data, manage it, have it anonymized and aggregated with others and then sold.

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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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How Does SharePoint Online Work?

Invid Group

How Does SharePoint Online Work? Things You Need To Know BY: Carlos Feliciano-Misla SharePoint Online is Microsoft’s internet-based document, collaboration, intranet, and insights platform. Unlike previous versions of this software that would have to sit on a local server, Microsoft hosts SharePoint online as part of their Office 365 suite of tools.

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Merlin Labs emerges from stealth to bring autonomy to 55-King Air fleet

TechCrunch

When Merlin Labs founder Matt George was learning to fly in Vermont, he had a close call with a Jet Blue aircraft that was coming into Burlington airport. It was “an unsettling experience,” he told TechCrunch, but one that stuck with him. A few years later, after the transportation company he founded Bridgj was acquired by Singapore-based Transit Systems, he started thinking about how he could bring the innovations that were taking place in autonomous ground transportation to the air.

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How to Achieve Success During an Oracle to MariaDB Migration

Datavail

MariaDB is a powerful open-source database technology that offers a range of enterprise-grade features and benefits, making it an attractive migration option for organizations using Oracle. However, you need to develop a comprehensive Oracle migration plan for a successful move. Here are some lessons Datavail has learned over thousands of database migrations.