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Lydia adds stock and crypto trading to its payment app

TechCrunch

French startup Lydia is entering a whole new category by adding trading to its financial super app later this year. The company is partnering with Bitpanda for this feature. Lydia users will be able to buy, hold and sell American and European shares, precious metals, cryptocurrencies and ETFs. Lydia started as a peer-to-peer payment app that lets you send and receive money instantly from a mobile app.

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Ensuring Network Connectivity With SD-WAN and AIOps

DevOps.com

Recently, Facebook experienced an outage. If companies relied on that app to do business, their IT teams were likely swamped with end-user complaint calls. How would teams traditionally respond? They’d dive deep into the rabbit hole, analyzing issues on a case-by-case basis, asking countless questions, including: Could there be a problem with the enterprise network?

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DevOps and SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

Dzone - DevOps

As the tech world changes, language changes with it. New technologies will always introduce new terms and descriptions to provide a clear understanding. For example, the emergence of the cloud introduced language to describe the changing relationship between servers and clients. Then, of course, product providers will also dictate how their products are to be described, i.e. describing services as “cloud-native”.

DevOps 143
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Thoughts on Sainsbury’s ‘Just Walk Out’ London store

Beyond B2B

When Amazon announced cashier-free store s in 2016, I marveled at its Just Walk Out technology with IoT-enabled sensors. I also fully expected that Amazon would eventually offer the technology as a white-labeled service to other retailers.

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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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Spinning up a Node.js Server in a Container on AWS with EC2

Dzone - DevOps

For a project at work, I needed to get a Node.js Express server running in a Docker container, then deploy that container to an EC2 instance on AWS. I took notes along the way because I was sure I'd need to do something like this again someday. Then, I figured—since I took notes—I might as well share my notes. You can generalize my use case for your own needs.

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Here's What SLIs AREN'T

Dzone - DevOps

SLIs, or service level indicators, are powerful metrics of service health. They’re often built up from simpler metrics that are monitored from the system. SLIs transform lower-level machine data into something that captures user happiness. Your organization might already have processes with this same goal. Techniques like real-time telemetry and using synthetic data also build metrics that meaningfully represent service health.

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How to Implement a Cloud Native Service

DevOps.com

The post How to Implement a Cloud Native Service appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CodeSOD: A Sort of Random

The Daily WTF

Linda found some C# code that generates random numbers. She actually found a lot of code which does that, because the same method was copy/pasted into a half dozen places. Each of those places was a View Model object, and each of those View Models contained thousands of lines of code. There's a lot going on here, so we'll start with some highlights.

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Mobile App Development Cost: Understanding The App Budget By App Type in 2022

Xicom

Wondering how much does it cost to create a mobile app for Android or iOS? Calculating the average cost to build a brilliant mobile app always remains a mystery for businesses. Still, this blog has gathered some facts, stats and parameters that help you understand what contributes to app development cost and breakdown of the.

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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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Why is custom-made software better than off-the-rack?

InfoBest

Software is an unavoidable part of business nowadays. For the organizations that still need to add a technological component to their activity, or to expand it, choosing correctly is imperative. The market is overloaded with choices, both from providers of custom-made and off-the-rack software. Yet, knowing which one is suitable requires an analysis of the workflows, resources, and goals of the company that is looking for a technical solution.

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What’s Old with the OWASP Top 10?

Security Innovation

Shouldn’t that be what’s new with the OWASP Top 10? Not in this blog. I am excited to be rejoining Security Innovation after having worked here from 2011-2014. One of the first things I am looking at is the new 2021 OWASP Top 10, and it’s like déjà vu all over again. After four years since the last OWASP Top 10, there are only three new ones, and one of those is related to one from 2017, leaving only two whole new categories.

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Top Cyber Priorities for a CEO to achieve company’s cyber resilience.

CEO Tech Tips

CEOs are responsible for overseeing all aspects of an organization – including technology. Non-technical CEOs hire technology leader(s) or/and technology firms to ensure that their organization’s technology, a key business enabler, is secure and available. Now a days cybersecurity is the greatest threat faced by all organizations. As data has become the most prized possession of an Organization, it makes sense that every organization is concerned with the exposure or unavailability of this data.

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Seat Map Implementation: How Airlines and OTAs Integrate Seating Functionality

Altexsoft

Advance seat reservation is one of the most popular arrangements flyers make in advance. Passengers are keen to make sure that they’ll be traveling together with their families or spend those hours in the air in comfort. The most common and convenient way to display the seat layout in a passenger aircraft is via a seating chart or a seat map. Typically posted by airlines themselves, seat maps allow passengers to visually choose which seat would fit them better and where it’s positioned in relati

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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.