Tue.Jan 18, 2022

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Using Open Source to Secure Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

Recently, there’s been a lot of attention paid to software supply chain security. In particular, here’s a quote from the May 2021 presidential executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity: “The Federal government must … advance toward zero trust architecture; accelerate movement to secure cloud services, including … platform as a service (PaaS).

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Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

TechCrunch

Maria Lepskaya. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. Market trends are the best indicators we have to judge the maturity of the quantum industry. While they don’t perfectly reflect technological progress, they showcase investors’ willingness to write checks for the industry.

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Two Phase Commit

Martin Fowler

Continuing his exploration of important patterns to maintain consistency across a cluster, Unmesh Joshi now looks at Two Phase Commit. It's broadly the most familiar approach, but comes with lots of complexities to make it work in practice over unreliable networks.

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Score another win for Istanbul gaming startups: Dream Games raises $255M at a $2.75B valuation

TechCrunch

Yet more funding is finding its way to Istanbul’s gaming startups. Today, Dream Games — the casual games developer behind the hit game Royal Match — is announcing a $255 million Series C that values the startup at $2.75 billion. This Series C is being led by Index Ventures, with Makers Fund, IVP, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Kora and Balderton Capital also participating.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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What is Collision in Networking? – Detection & Avoidance

The Crazy Programmer

Do you want to learn about collisions in networking? If yes, stay on this article because we have covered this topic in detail. And in this article, you will learn collision in computer networking and how it works. We will also discover some brief information about collision detection and avoidance. So, if you want to get every detail systematically.

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Enterprise Design Cheat Sheet

Xebia

The trends relevant for organisations for the next few years will be (1) resilience and (2) human-centric. These two topics will result in impactful change in most organisations. As support for this change I want to share my Enterprise Design Cheatsheet with you. The Enterprise Design Cheat Sheet can be downloaded at [link] as PDF. Advising change.

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Philippines ‘buy now pay later’ startup BillEase scores $11M Series B

TechCrunch

Buy now pay later (BNPL) startups are proliferating around the world and the Philippines is no exception. Today, one of the country’s biggest BNPL providers, BillEase , announced it has raised an $11 million Series B. The round was led by BurdaPrincipal Investments, growth capital arm of Hubert Burda Media. Other participants included Centauri, a joint investment vehicle between MDI Ventures and KB Investment, and Tamaz Georgadze, CEO and co-founder of Raisin DS.

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3 Skills For Digital Transformation In 2022 and How to Hire for Them

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The race for qualified talent is on. As your digital transformation journey continues, it’s important that your new hires have the skills necessary to integrate into a growing and changing organization. Tech giants with the resources to offer competitive salaries and hardy benefits packages make it more difficult for smaller organizations to recruit and retain excellent candidates. .

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Wayve raises $200M Series B led by Eclipse for its AI for autonomous delivery vehicles

TechCrunch

British autonomous vehicle startup Wayve has raised a $200 million Series B funding round from investors to scale its technology and expand its partnerships with commercial fleets. Wayve is aiming to be a major player in the arena of Robo-deliveries and logistics. It’s now raised a total of $258 million to date for its technology, which relies largely on commodity video cameras around the vehicle tied to on-vehicle AI-driven software, making it highly responsive to its surroundings as it relies

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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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Enterprise Design Cheat Sheet

Xebia

The trends relevant for organisations for the next few years will be (1) resilience and (2) human-centric. These two topics will result in impactful change in most organisations. As support for this change I want to share my Enterprise Design Cheatsheet with you. The Enterprise Design Cheat Sheet can be downloaded at [link] as PDF. Advising change. When I talk to people about their desire to change their organisation, I ask questions.

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Toyota Ventures leads seed extension into Agtonomy, turning tractors into autonomous vehicles

TechCrunch

Agtonomy co-founder and CEO Tim Bucher was born and raised on a farm and was deep into his own farming business when he took a computer course while at UC Davis and got hooked. It was that parallel agriculture/technology career that led him to start Agtonomy, a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist service startup that turns tractors and other equipment into autonomous machines to provide a low-cost, technology-enabled labor force for local farms to manage such equipment.

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White House Meeting Puts Spotlight on OSS Sustainability

DevOps.com

A recent meeting between IT industry leaders and White House officials highlighted open source software sustainability concerns as high-profile breaches and zero-day attacks have many organizations reviewing their software supply chains. The White House published a statement describing, among other things, how participants had a “substantive and constructive” discussion on how to make a difference […].

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SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure company Pyxis One as it starts year with new name

TechCrunch

Pyxis One, now Pixis , closed on $100 million in Series C funding to continue developing what it touts as “the world’s only contextual codeless AI infrastructure for complete marketing optimization.”. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by new investor General Atlantic, and existing investors Celesta Capital, Premji Invest and Chiratae Ventures.

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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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Infracost: How to Get Started

Dzone - DevOps

Infracost is an open-source project released in June 2020 on their 0.1.0 version. It was created by cloud computer experts Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini , Ali Khajeh-Hosseini , and Alistair Scott. They have been working with cloud technologies since 2012 by providing solutions to tech giants such as Sony, Samsung, and Netflix. Working with cloud providers and DevOps is all about speed, efficiency, and cost management.

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Aigen’s swarm of agtech robots want to make agriculture carbon negative

TechCrunch

Even though the only thing the robot can do right now is pull weeds, Aigen is adamant it isn’t building a weed-whacking robot. It claims to be on a mission to terraform the earth, and says it has a path toward making agriculture carbon negative. It must have made a compelling argument, because it just announced a $4 million seed round led by NEA , with participation from AgFunder , Global Founders Capital and ReGen Ventures.

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How a hacker, a hustler, and a designer made RSS feeds cool

Dzone - DevOps

Building a platform that 100,000 devs use every day is no accident, but it can happen (almost) overnight. Daily.Dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the hottest developer news, and their mission is to build the home page that every developer deserves.

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Smart calendar tool Clockwise raises $45M to help remote teams avoid burnout using AI

TechCrunch

Clockwise , a time management and smart calendar tool, has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. This latest round brings the company’s total amount of funding raised to $76 million. Clockwise uses artificial intelligence to help teams free up their workdays and avoid the challenges associated with remote and hybrid workplaces, such as burnout.

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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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Coding bootcamps won't make you a developer: Here's what will

TechBeacon

The headlines are hard to resist. Salaries for programmers are said to be soaring. Annual paychecks for AI experts are topping $1 million. Why dream of winning the lottery when coding bootcamps are springing up with promises to teach everyone what they need to get a ticket on the gravy train?

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Appcues nabs $32.1M for analytics and no-code tools to fix user onboarding

TechCrunch

User onboarding has been a longstanding and persistent challenge in the world of apps. Developers grapple with design and technical constraints; publishers and users might have different priorities when it comes to engaging with a service; the content of those services is changing all the time; and perhaps most of all, people are all different and so their experiences with an app will be, too.

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Tonga downed by massive undersea volcanic eruption

Kentik

On Saturday, the pacific island nation of Tonga was decimated by a massive volcanic eruption that was visible from space. At 5:27pm local time, the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai unexpectedly erupted, sending ash and debris for hundreds of miles. As of this writing, all internet and telephone communications between Tonga and the rest of the world are still down.

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Permiso emerges from stealth with $10M to tackle the next wave of cloud security

TechCrunch

Permiso, a Palo Alto-based startup that provides cloud identity detection and response for cloud infrastructures , has launched from stealth with $10 million in seed funding. The company, founded by former FireEye executives Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin, joins an influx of cloud security startups that have emerged since the start of the pandemic, which saw organizations rush to digitize their operations to support employees working from home.

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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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What Socrates Got Right About Engagement & Wellbeing

Nathan Magnuson

Wellbeing Wins – 3 min, from the 10 Day Engagement Challenge. There’s a legend about Socrates that one day a young man approached him asking his help to find knowledge. Socrates took him out to the beach and waded into the water. When they were at shoulder depth, Socrates turned to him and asked, “What was it you wanted from me?” “I want to find knowledge!

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Castiron serves up a $6M seed round to support ‘food artisans’

TechCrunch

The pandemic hasn’t been easy for anyone, but the food service industry has been hit particularly hard. More than 90,000 restaurants and bars have closed, leaving workers unemployed in an already precarious industry. And those who kept their jobs faced the stressful demands of customer-facing work in a pandemic. In response to the changed industry landscape, food service veterans are launching their own businesses, whether they’re delivering take-out meals in their neighborhood or ma

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Five Cryptography best practices for developers

Synopsys

Learn about the five cryptography best practices every developer should follow to secure their applications. The post Five Cryptography best practices for developers appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions

TechCrunch

Christine Tsai. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Christine Tsai is the CEO and founding partner of 500 Global. This was another blockbuster year for global venture funding, with 2021 breaking records across the board. Deal activity is at record highs. Last year, a total of $643 billion was invested globally, according to Crunchbase News , compared with $335 billion in 2020 – that’s 92% growth year over year.

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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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The Life and Times of Feature Flags

DevOps.com

A while back, I had the opportunity to look closely at DevSecOps tools (as the market currently defines them). There was a lot to like, and they are moving forward to a “Find all of the vulnerabilities, all of the time” future … Except there will be new vulnerabilities that aren’t as easy to catch […]. The post The Life and Times of Feature Flags appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Fairplay closes $35M in equity, debt to provide revenue-based financing to entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

Mexican revenue-based investment startup Fairplay secured $35 million in Series A funding to invest in the online marketing campaigns of direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands and marketplace sellers in Latin America. The investment round consists of $15 million in equity, co-led by Dila Capital and Kayyak Ventures, and participation from Speedinvest and Elevar Equity, and $20 million in debt led by Architect Capital.

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AI Cultural Change From First Principles

Dataiku

So, you want to change your company culture to be more data driven and use AI everyday. You want to get advanced analytics beyond the Center of Excellence (or what one of my customers call the RSPD, Really Smart People Department, and another calls the bottleneck) and into all your business units and business functions. This article discusses how executives can use price and demand to increase AI development.

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