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Komunidad, a Philippines-based environmental intelligence platform, lands seed round

TechCrunch

The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with geography that makes it vulnerable to typhoons, floods, volcanos, earthquakes and droughts. While working in IT, Felix Ayque began compiling cyclone reports and sending them as email alerts to communities. His work evolved into environmental intelligence platform Komunidad , which collects data from government and private sources, and turns it into customizable analytics to help clients react quickly to potential disa

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The Role of APIs in Mainframe Modernization

DevOps.com

Mainframes are historically clunky systems. They are incredibly secure and can process impressive calculations, yet they are complex to manage and challenging to extract data from. This reality is at odds with modern cloud-native infrastructure, which emphasizes distributed computing and portable microservices. So, how can existing mainframes adapt to this connected, data-driven economy?

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Why and when startups should look to diverse sources of capital

TechCrunch

Venture capital is a popular source of capital for early-stage startups, but it’s definitely not the only one. Debt is an increasingly popular alternative, as is non-dilutive, revenue-based financing. So, we invited Accel Partner Arun Mathew , Clearco co-founder and president Michele Romanow , and Pipe co-founder and co-CEO Harry Hurst to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 last week to discuss the various ways companies can raise capital and which might be the best avenue for startups.

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Celebrate National Techies Day

Beyond B2B

The “star" status attained by several prominent technology experts - from Elon Musk to Tim Cook - is attracting more and more young people to careers in technology.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Totally Up To Date

The Daily WTF

The year was 2015. Erik was working for LibCo, a company that offered management software for public libraries. The software managed inventory, customer tracking, fine calculations, and everything else the library needed to keep track of their books. This included, of course, a huge database with all book titles known to the entire library system. Having been around since the early 90s, the company had originally not implemented Internet connectivity.

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September Changelog: What's New at Netlify

Netlify

Hi folks! This September, Netlify announced a major milestone surpassing 2 MILLION developers that choose Netlify to streamline their web development workflows. Before we celebrate Jamstack Conf this week, let’s recap all the exciting updates shipped by Netlify last month. Read on to discover what’s new at Netlify. And if you want product updates like this in your inbox, you can subscribe to our newsletter here??.

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