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Why You Should Embrace Incidents and Ditch MTTR

DevOps.com

The cliché is that everyone in IT hates incidents, and the natural reaction when assembling incident response metrics is to look for numbers that you can lower over time. Fewer incidents and shorter incident response times must be better, we think. You might already be familiar with the common metrics associated with these goals, including […].

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With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning

TechCrunch

Lee Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). The fintech sector has been hugely successful (and hugely profitable) for much of the last decade, and even more so during the pandemic. But it might come as a surprise to learn that many in the industry believe that the story is just beginning and the sector is poised to achieve much more, wit

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How to Choose Who You Promote into Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. Promote leaders aligned with your culture and you build momentum. Get this wrong and you’ll undo all the good you’ve done. In this episode, you’ll get two essential criteria to examine when considering who you promote into a leadership role.

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Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’

TechCrunch

Yummy, a Venezuela-based delivery app on a mission to create the super app for the country, announced Friday it raised $4 million in funding to expand its dark store delivery operations across Latin America. Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020.

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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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6 code and framework trends you should follow in 2021

TechBeacon

For code creators, 2021 has already been a big year. There haven’t been major tectonic shifts as in, say, 2014, when Apple introduced Swift as a new, high-profile language that was guaranteed to be used. But there’s still plenty of evolution amid the relentless push for faster responses, bigger datasets, and simpler opportunities for users.

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How to Create a Kubernetes Cluster and Load Balancer for Local Development

Dzone - DevOps

Overview. This guide will show you one of many ways that you can set up and tear down a local Kubernetes cluster with a load balancer for use as a local development environment. In this article, we will be leveraging Rancher's k3d to run a local Kubernetes cluster and installing MetalLB as a Load Balancer to our cluster.

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Outdoorsy co-founders detail how they expanded the sharing economy to RVs

TechCrunch

Jen Young and Jeff Cavins were sitting in a beige conference room at a downtown Vancouver hotel, wasting away under fluorescent lights, an endless PowerPoint and a pair of sad Styrofoam cups of coffee between them. Young was there on a marketing contract. Cavins was a board member. They shared one of those looks that only couples can understand. It said: There’s got to be something better than this.

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Accelerate Offloading to Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) with Procedural SQL Support

Cloudera

Did you know Cloudera customers, such as SMG and Geisinger , offloaded their legacy DW environment to Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) to take advantage of CDW’s modern architecture and best-in-class performance? In addition to substantial cost savings upon moving to CDW, Geisinger is also able to search through hundreds of million patient note records in seconds providing better treatment to their patients.

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Visualping raises $6M to make its website change monitoring service smarter

TechCrunch

Visualping , a service that can help you monitor websites for changes like price drops or other updates, announced that it has raised a $6 million extension to the $2 million seed round it announced earlier this year. The round was led by Seattle-based FUSE Ventures , a relatively new firm with investors who spun out of Ignition Partners last year. Prior investors Mistral Venture Partners and N49P also participated.

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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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Improving Visibility Without Being Annoying

Dzone - DevOps

It’s safe to say that everyone wants more visibility into their software delivery process. When project management and git systems don’t talk to each other, we have only small islands of visibility and no way to connect them. Anders Wallgren, the VP of Technology Strategy at Cloudbees, joins the Dev Interrupted Podcast to help us connect these islands, and discuss the outcome-based metrics we should all be using to make the software development process more visible.

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Taste intelligence startup Halla closes $4.5M Series A1 to predict which grocery items shoppers will buy

TechCrunch

Halla wants to answer the question of how people decide what to eat, and now has $4.5 million in fresh Series A1 capital from Food Retail Ventures to do it. Headquartered in New York, Halla was founded in 2016 by Gabriel Nipote, Henry Michaelson and Spencer Price to develop “taste intelligence,” using human behavior to steer shoppers to food items they want while also discovering new ones as they shop online.

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What Is Container Orchestration? (+ 4 Top Container Tools)

CloudZero

Containerization is gaining traction across nearly all industries and company sizes worldwide. In fact, the 2019 edition of Portworx’s annual Containers Adoption Survey report showed over 87% of surveyed organizations were using container technologies. Over 90% of them use containerization in production.

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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

TechCrunch

Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos.

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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 to Build Trust in AI

DataRobot

Just as trust needs to be established in our personal and business relationships, it also needs to be established between an AI user and the system. Transformative technologies such as autonomous vehicles will be possible only when there are clear methods and benchmarks to establish trust in AI systems. At DataRobot , we define the benchmark of AI maturity as AI you can trust.

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In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key

TechCrunch

John Flavin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. John Flavin is founder and CEO of Portal Innovations, LLC. More posts by this contributor. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early. Kevin O’Connor. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kevin A. O'Connor, Ph.D., is a partner in the Intellectual Property practice group at Neal Gerber Eisenberg.

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Finding the Right DevOps for CI/CD

Mobilunity

Agile continuous delivery in software development involves several methodologies to make all the processes smooth, fast, and effective. CI CD DevOps methodologies refer to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. CI/CD services mean constant automation, testing, and monitoring to create a software development pipeline. They bring the operations and development team together.

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Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson will be a Startup Battlefield Judge at Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. At NEA, where she was a partner for eight years, she led investments in and sat on the boards of companies including Desktop Metal, Onshape, Framebridge, Tulip, Formlabs and Guideline.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Member of the Band – Josue Alvarado , Full Stack Software Developer

Gorilla Logic

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band—engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today! Josue Alvarado — Full Stack Software Developer.

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Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst explains how to get ready to raise your next round

TechCrunch

TechCrunch virtually sat down with venture capitalist and Cleo Capital managing director Sarah Kunst at our latest Early Stage event last week. Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capital in today’s frenetic fundraising environment , digging into the gritty mechanics for the audience. Cleo Capital invests $500,000 to $1 million into early-stage startups, with portfolio companies that include mmhmm, Cameo and StyleSeat, among others.

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Automate Code Deployment to Kubernetes By Using GitHub Actions

Dzone - DevOps

As a developer, we're always looking for simplification when it comes to deploying code. We like to concentrate on writing code without worrying about infrastructure components. In this article, I will explain how to deploy a sample VueJS application to an IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster.

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Deploy PeopleSoft Customizations: SQR and Other Files

Flexagon

In the second blog in our series, we looked at how to deploy PeopleSoft projects developed using PeopleSoft Application Designer. In this blog, we will look at how to configure and deploy other customizations related to PeopleSoft including SQR and other files. FlexDeploy Loves Oracle PeopleSoft: DevOps for PeopleSoft FlexDeploy Loves Oracle PeopleSoft: Migrate PeopleSoft.

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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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Benchmarking Xcode Availability Across Hosted CI Services

Dzone - DevOps

Xcode versions are the drumbeat that iOS teams all around the world march to. The prompt access to Xcode versions ensures that apps are submitted, and updated on time, while Xcode betas help prepare for new features, functionality, and – the dreaded deprecations. With WWDC 2021 around the corner, enticing teams with the shiny new things the Apple folks thought up for us, this topic is more relevant than ever.

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Webinar: Dell Technologies Hardware and Software Portals Cybersecurity

Dell EMC

Join our online support panel of experts LIVE on Thursday, July 29 at 11:00 AM CST to discuss the latest in Cybersecurity IQ for hardware and software with CloudIQ. Gather valuable guidance as we discuss new features now available for managing and securing your portals.

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Creating an AWS EKS Cluster and Providing Access to Developer

Dzone - DevOps

1. Introduction. This article is going to talk about mainly two points: How to create an AWS EKS Cluster. How to provide an AWS EKS cluster access to a developer who does not have admin access to AWS. To deploy any microservices, we need to create AWS EKS clusters like dev and QA, etc. Once AWS EKS clusters are available then every developer should have access for logging and debugging purposes from their EC2 instance.

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Why (and How) to 'Call B t' on AI

Dataiku

By the very nature of the phrase, we think of data science — and, by extension, machine learning and AI — as, well… a science. And traditionally, those of us on the business side or people not coming from technical roles and disciplines don’t feel comfortable questioning results from AI systems; after all, we’re not data scientists, so we’re not the experts, right?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Engineering solutions to security issues

CircleCI

This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is re-published here with permission. Software engineering teams have always looked for ways to increase code creation efficiency, reduce code vulnerabilities, and improve security processes. Many are now shifting security left, establishing security controls and testing — specifically integration testing — at an earlier phase in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Boost Your Email Marketing with Constant Contact

TechSoup

Constant Contact offers accessible, easy-to-use email marketing software, designed to help businesses get tangible results from their campaigns. Many nonprofits operate with small teams and limited resources and do not have access to marketing experts or coders. TechSoup's partnership with Constant Contact gives nonprofits a great opportunity to add a professional edge to their email marketing and website, at a cost that fits their budget.

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Successful AI implementation made simple

Capgemini

When implementing artificial intelligence (AI), always remember: “slow and steady wins the race.” “Slow,” we hear you shout, “I need to adapt fast or risk upsetting my customers!” True. But this saying doesn’t mean slow in the traditional sense – it means doing things properly now will ensure processes flow much easier in the future. This mindset is key for an effective AI implementation.