Fri.Apr 16, 2021

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What is OLAP: A Complete Guide to Online Analytical Processing

Altexsoft

Despite the variety and complexity of data stored in the corporate environment, everything is typically recorded in simple columns and rows. This is a classic spreadsheet look we’re all familiar with, and that’s how most databases file data. An example of database tables, structuring music by artists, albums, and ratings dimensions. Source: database.guide.

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AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot

TechCrunch

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice. The startup behind the “uncanny valley” audio deepfake of Einstein is Aflorithmic (whose seed round we covered back in February).

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Why We Lead

Let's Grow Leaders

As we celebrate 100 episodes of Leadership without Losing Your Soul, it’s a good time to reflect on why we lead. Your leadership extends far beyond your team and the work you do. Every day, you build the world we all will live in. As you commit to human-centered leadership, achieving results, and building relationships – who can you invite on the journey with you to build a better world?

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Data scientists: Bring the narrative to the forefront

TechCrunch

Peter Wang. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Peter Wang is CEO and co-founder of data science platform Anaconda. He’s also a co-creator of the PyData community and conferences, and a member of the board at the Center for Humane Technology. By 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day, according to some estimates. (For perspective, one exabyte of storage could hold 50,000 years of DVD-quality video.

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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 steps for building the best agile teams

TechBeacon

Agile methodology is a proven strategy for rapidly delivering advanced digital solutions. With it, teams can innovate faster while mitigating project risks, because an agile-focused methodology relies on iterative development and encourages frequent inspection and adaptation. Constant feedback and enhancements lower the cost of failure and give companies new opportunities to get to market faster with innovative solutions.

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Harness Empowers Developers with Cloud Agnostic End-to-End Software Delivery Platform

DevOps.com

AWS GovCloud, Azure and GCP integrations provide DevOps and financial management teams with a CI/CD platform for multi-cloud deployments and complete cost visibility across all of their public cloud resources SAN FRANCISCO – April 15, 2021 – Harness, the leading platform for software delivery, today announced end-to-end integrations with Amazon (AWS) GovCloud, Microsoft Azure, and Google […].

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Level raises $27M from Khosla, Lightspeed ‘to rebuild insurance from the ground up’

TechCrunch

Level , a startup that aims to give companies a more flexible way to offer benefits to employees, has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Operator Collective and leading angels also participated in the financing, along with previous backers First Round Capital and Homebrew. The round was reportedly raised at a “nine-figure” valuation, but the company did not provide more specifics.

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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

Altexsoft

Whether your business is focused on selling airline tickets, package trips, or cruises, if you want to be acknowledged as a professional in the travel industry, you need to be certified. However, if you are a newbie, it might be a bit challenging to get through that labyrinth of IATA-ARC-VTC-CTD-IATAN acronyms and choose what’s right for you. We already have a detailed guide on IATA accreditation that is a good explainer of all the main concepts and parties in the travel agency accreditation pro

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The IPO market is sending us mixed messages

TechCrunch

If you only stayed up to date with the Coinbase direct listing this week , you’re forgiven. It was, after all, one heck of a flotation. But underneath the cryptocurrency exchange’s public debut, other IPO news that matters did happen this week. And the news adds up to a somewhat muddled picture of the current IPO market. To cap off the week, let’s run through IPO news from UiPath, Coinbase, Grab, AppLovin and Zenvia.

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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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Monitor Your SEO Placement with SEObase (Sponsored)

David Walsh

Search engine optimization is big business; both SEO experts and their customers want to track the effectiveness of their keywords, campaigns, and competition. To get and measure those results, however, you need the right tooling monitor those results. SEObase is an awesome tool for doing just that — monitoring keywords and results across search engines!

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1Doc3, a Colombian telemedicine startup, raises $3 million

TechCrunch

The pandemic has made telemedicine video visits in the U.S. almost commonplace, but in Latin America, where broadband isn’t widely available, 1Doc3 is using text and chat to provide access to care. Today, the Colombia-based company announced a $3 million pre-Series A led by MatterScale Ventures and Kayyak Ventures. “I’m on a nice MacBook for this interview, but that’s not the case of most people in LatAm,” said Javier Cardona, co-founder and CEO of 1Doc3.

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Running Selenium Tests in Jenkins

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps, an organizational approach that has been used immensely for quicker development and deployment of applications, has been the latest technical buzz. Today organizations are adopting DevOps, as it promises to provide best practices starting right from planning and testing to deployment and monitoring. CI/CD tools like Jenkins play an integral role in allowing organizations to implement DevOps, and Jenkins integration with Selenium makes the entire process of Selenium test automation so muc

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What we all missed in UiPath’s latest IPO filing

TechCrunch

Robotic process automation platform UiPath filed its first S-1/A this week, setting an initial price range for its shares. The numbers were impressive, if slightly disappointing because what UiPath indicated in terms of its potential IPO value was a lower valuation than it earned during its final private fundraising. It’s hard to say that a company looking to go public at a valuation north of $25 billion is a letdown, but compared to preceding levels of hype, the numbers were a bit of a s

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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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How universities are using AI to power operational efficiency

Trigent

The role of technology in the education industry has witnessed some monumental trendsetters, right from 2019, which saw the advent of Big Data , Internet of Things (IoT), and Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has also been a significant contributor, revolutionizing education. Keeping up with the changing times, universities have started embracing AI.

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Nelo raises $3M to grow ‘buy now, pay later’ in Mexico

TechCrunch

Buy now, pay later is a way of paying for purchases via installment loans that generally have no interest. The concept has grown in popularity in recent years, especially in markets such as the United States, Europe and Australia. Numerous players abound, all fighting for market share — from Affirm to Klarna to Afterpay, among others. But notably, none of these bigger players have yet to penetrate another very large market — Latin America.

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The Looming Talent Crisis

CEO Insider

Like a dangerous hurricane being closely tracked, it’s coming, and we’ve known it. Demographics. Average retirement age. The health of our economy. They all point to a mass exodus of workforce talent over the next decade and an accompanying talent shortage looming on the horizon. With approximately 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day—a trend […].

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Extra Crunch roundup: UiPath’s IPO filing, predicting revenue, how to pivot properly, much more

TechCrunch

This is not a boast, but a warning: I could write a how-to article on almost any topic. Give me enough time to do some research, and I can put together a reliable step-by-step for building a custom gaming PC, installing a hot water heater or interpreting public health data. But since I’ve never actually done those things, I would encourage you to ignore any advice I have to offer.

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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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Connecting IT Podcast – Ban Distractions, with Nigel Moore, The Tech Tribe

Kaseya

In this edition of the Connecting IT Podcast, host Dan Tomaszewski, SVP of Channel and Community at Kaseya, talks with Nigel Moore, founder of The Tech Tribe about the biggest threats to your MSP in 2021. Throughout their 35-minute conversation, Dan and Nigel discuss the pitfall of letting distractions keep you from doing the real work of running an MSP.

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Do you need a SPAC therapist?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. It was yet another busy week, but that just means we had a great time putting the show together and recording it.

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Linters Implemented by Ruby Libraries

Toptal

When you hear the word “linter,” you probably think about particular widely used tools. But there’s a different kind of linters. In this article, Toptal Back-end Architect Robert Pankowecki introduces you to linters implemented by Ruby libraries and details their capabilities.

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Top 10 CI/CD Pipeline Implementation Challenges and Solutions

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. CI/CD pipelines have become the mainstream approach to software development across the entire IT sector. There’s no doubt that CI/CD pipeline tools have matured a lot over the years. Yet, developers, QA engineers, and leaders are still posed with some challenges and roadblocks in adopting and efficiently implementing CI/CD tools. This article highlights the top 10 CI/CD challenges that people face during implementation, and we will also discuss their potential solutions.

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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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Resolving Embedded Files at Runtime via strace

Lacework

Modern Linux malware binaries are being shipped with one or more embedded files. Often, the first stage binary is simply a dropper for the real payload. Prior to the “real payload” being dropped, it’s common to see checks for the host’s CPU architecture, Linux distribution or a series of other factors that influence which embedded [.]. Read More. The post Resolving Embedded Files at Runtime via strace appeared first on Lacework.

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Announcing New Honeycomb Management API

Honeycomb

Starting today, Honeycomb’s Management API is generally available to all Honeycomb users. The Honeycomb Management API is a set of endpoints that lets you programmatically set up, configure, and delete queries, datasets, derived columns, and more. With this release, you can now manage Honeycomb with configuration as code either directly via API or with third-party tools, like Terraform, using the community-contributed Honeycomb provider.

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Support Data Management with Datavail’s New MongoDB Backup Tool

Datavail

Even small and medium businesses generate a LOT of data, much or all of which must be appropriately backed up to facilitate a successful recovery if needed. Unfortunately, the expansion of data types and the drive for digital transformation have made managing those backup and recovery functions especially difficult. There are just too many data types, formats, systems, etc., to accomplish a “simple” backup function, let alone one that allows a swift return to work using a recovered o

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How to Use the Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC)

DevOps.com

The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey.

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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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Unlocking the Power of AI

Dell EMC

Building on a strong partnership, VMware and NVIDIA are working to bring AI to enterprises everywhere — and Dell Technologies is on board.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Design (introduction)

James Shore

Second Edition cover. This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Your feedback is appreciated! To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list.

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Hafnium cyber-attack neutralized by AI in December 2020

Darktrace

Darktrace AI appears to have detected a Hafnium attack against vulnerable Exchange servers in December 2020, three months before the zero-day was identified. This blog provides an in-depth analysis of the attack, which suggests that Hafnium’s campaign began far earlier than previously thought.