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MARCH 2, 2023

Despite a tumultuous couple of months, strong user uptake of Tableau business intelligence and MuleSoft data automation and integration software fueled a surprising 14% year-over-year jump in revenue for Salesforce’s fourth quarter. Posting revenue of $8.38 billion after stock market trading closed on Wednesday, the company beat the expectations of analysts, whose average forecast for the quarter was $7.99 billion, according to data from Yahoo Finance.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Roofing isn’t a glamorous job. In fact, one could reasonably argue that it checks off the classic three Ds of automation — dull, dirty and dangerous — with aplomb. It’s a prime candidate for transformation at the hands of some clever roboticists. It always ranks at or toward the top of the list of most dangerous construction jobs, and there are a lot of roofs in the world — every human who wants one should have one.

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Xebia

MARCH 2, 2023

The "suspend + receivers" style The Arrow project, in particular starting with its 2.0 version, promotes a specific style of Kotlin to achieve composability of effects. Functional programming patterns inspire many concepts, but the specific implementation differs from Haskell’s or Scala’s typical way of doing things (monads, IO , and transformers).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Consumer tastes are ever changing, but one thing’s for sure: People are looking for healthier food options, including their favorite comfort foods. Ramen is often a pantry staple, known jokingly for being the food of choice for college students and young entrepreneurs, but the market potential is huge: The market value of the global instant noodle sector in 2020 was nearly $46 billion and is projected to be about $66 billion by the end of 2027.

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CIO

MARCH 2, 2023

Pick n Pay’s bold plan to modernize infrastructure and drive efficiency is beginning to pay dividends as its migration to AWS was successfully completed last year, signaling the digital ambitions of this retail giant. This move to the cloud lays the foundation for further expansion into other cloud-based applications to deliver deeper insights and better digital services, as well as drive cost savings for the company and the consumer.

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CIO

MARCH 2, 2023

With five state-of-art data centers located in the Sydney and Canberra metropolitan areas, including a facility created to manage cloud applications and data that require PROTECTED, SECRET and higher classifications, Macquarie Government, as part of the ASX listed Macquarie Telecom Group, was one of the first companies to provide sovereign IT services to Australia’s government agencies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

According to a recent report , 92.4% of consumers use reviews when deciding to purchase products. It’s understandable. They want confidence in their purchase choice before buying a product online. A Seoul-based startup called Indent wants to help these shoppers through access to video reviews and product ratings, while also helping to drive sales for e-commerce merchants by providing them with this same precious customer feedback.

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CIO

MARCH 2, 2023

With a talent for developing people and inspiring innovation from her teams, Anita Klopfenstein has built a powerhouse IT organization since joining Little Caesars in 2017 as its CIO. One of the secrets behind her success as a leader is her love of learning. After majoring in both computer science and radio, television and film, she went on to earn an MBA.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

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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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CEO Insider

MARCH 2, 2023

At a party in rural Virginia, I listened as three military retirees carried on about the horrors of government and taxes, never stopping to think that every penny they earned came from government taxes. What is dumbing so many people down? This could be the question of our age, to answer before it’s too late. […] The post What Is Dumbing Us Down?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

High employee turnover is often a hint that a company’s human resources strategy isn’t working, but it’s also difficult for managers to identify who is thinking of leaving. HR Signal wants to make retention easier by using algorithms to predict which employees are most likely to seek another job. The worker analysis startup, which has benchmarked 50,000 job positions, announced today it has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding from Gammite Ventures and Aaron Grossman.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 2, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, and DevOps are all related concepts around optimizing and giving structure to different aspects of the software delivery and software deployment lifecycles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

It seems like only yesterday that I wrote about Gable’s $12 million Series A , but it was, in fact, two days ago. The company is building an interesting product in the world of remote work, and I was curious how the founders were able to convince investors to part with a big pile of dough. Gable takes all the administrative work out of finding and booking nearby workspaces, both for employees and employers.

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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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DevOps.com

MARCH 2, 2023

In this week’s #TheLongView: Don’t get scammed looking for a job, and momentum grows for the 32-hour working week. The post LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. While a relatively small space compared to, say, the market for customer relationship management ( $44.9 billion in 2023), contract lifecycle management, or CLM, is growing at a rapid clip.

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Cloudera

MARCH 2, 2023

Recently, we announced enhanced multi-function analytics support in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) with Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is a high-performance open table format for huge analytic data sets. It allows multiple data processing engines, such as Flink, NiFi, Spark, Hive, and Impala to access and analyze data in simple, familiar SQL tables. In this blog post, we are going to share with you how Cloudera Stream Processing ( CSP ) is integrated with Apache Iceberg and how you can use the SQL Stream

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm. The process, he says, was “a nightmare,” leading him to build a CRM platform that could meet his — and his company’s — needs. “I became a developer by night and a VC by day,” Sharp told TechCrunch via email. “After a few months, I left the venture world to continue the project.” “The project” mor

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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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DevOps.com

MARCH 2, 2023

Sysdig this week announced there is now a Wireshark Foundation that will oversee future development of the widely used open source traffic protocol analyzer. Gerald Combs, who is now director of open source projects at Sysdig, along with Loris Degioanni, CTO of Sysdig, launched Wireshark in 2006 to enable teams to monitor network traffic, learn […] The post Sysdig Launches Wireshark Foundation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Climate change is a problem important and pressing enough that investors have begun to grasp the opportunities that arise when trying to solve it. Now, they’ve started to cast their nets wider for other, adjacent opportunities. Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace older, more harmful means of generating energy and food seems to be one such opportunity.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 2, 2023

In today’s fast-paced world, being able to deploy applications quickly is essential for success. However, setting up a CI/CD pipeline can be a tedious and time-consuming task. Fortunately, GitHub Actions can help simplify and automate your workflow, making it easier than ever to get your applications up and running in no time. In this blog […] The post How GitHub Actions Simplifies Your CI/CD Workflow appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Hexa , a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 million Series A round from Point72 Ventures, Samurai Incubate, Sarona Partners and HTC. CEO and co-founder Yehiel Atias said that the cash will be put toward product development and expanded customer acquisition efforts well into 2023. HTC’s participation in the round might seem curious.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Machine learning (ML) recently experienced a revival of public interest with the launch of ChatGPT. Businesses and researchers, however, have been working with these technologies for decades. Most large businesses, ranging from e-commerce platforms to artificial intelligence (AI) research organizations, already use ML as part of their value proposition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

TechCrunch Live took a virtual visit to Boston this week at our special City Spotlight: Boston event. During the special, extended event, influential Boston founders and investors spoke, including Boston Robotics founder Marc Raibert and MassChallenge CEO Cait Brumme. The event started with Greg Dracon, of.406 Ventures, and Matt Caulfield, founder and CEO of Oort, with a conversation around cybersecurity companies in Boston.

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Aqua Security

MARCH 2, 2023

Supply chain security has made lots of headlines recently thanks to events like the SolarWinds breach. That and similar events highlight the importance of having a strategy in place to respond to zero-day attacks which can take advantage of vulnerable software components.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

The best-known unicorns in the world are getting fit, showing that it is possible to trim losses while still posting growth. They are living experiments when it comes to corporations looking to get lean without cutting muscle. European fintech giant Klarna is working through a valuation reset and a change in investor priority ahead of an eventual public offering.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 2, 2023

Well over one-third (37%) of respondents to a recent industry survey reported that recruiting developers with the needed skills would continue to be a challenge through 2023. More than 2,000 developers and IT professionals participated in the Infragistics survey from December 2022 to January 2023. The survey also found developers and IT professionals are just […] The post Despite Tech Layoffs, Developer Shortage Continues appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Wunderkind , a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced that it raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman, the financial services company. Wunderkind’s newly appointed CEO, Bill Ingram, says that the tranche — which brings Wunderkind’s total raised to over $150 million — will be put toward investing in product development, hiring and ongoing market expansion. ̶

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Infinidat

MARCH 2, 2023

Infinidat’s InfiniBox™ SSA II Drives Certainty! Adriana Andronescu Thu, 03/02/2023 - 10:38 In April 2022, Ken Steinhardt, our Americas Field CTO, provided insights on the capabilities of our new InfiniBox™ SSA II and detailed the fantastic performance that came along with it. Today, this blog will reflect on that and update everyone on not only how successful it has been, but also how Infinidat continues to add unrivaled functionality to the platform.

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