Tue.Dec 07, 2021

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Use a general purpose language to manage the interface evolution

Martin Fowler

Many commercial integration tools market their ability to own the integration landscape and call out to general purpose languages as needed. While I can appreciate the marketing behind such messaging — it promotes product penetration and lock-in — as architectural guidance, it is exactly backwards. Instead, we should almost always manage the interface evolution in a general purpose language for at least two reasons: so we can better manage the complexity of maintaining a clean inte

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Grip Security raises $19M Series A for its SaaS security platform

TechCrunch

Grip Security , a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps enterprises protect their data in SaaS applications, today announced that it has raised a $19 million Series A funding round led by Intel Capital. YL Ventures , which led the company’s $6 million seed round earlier this year, also participated in this round, which brings Grips’ total funding to $25 million.

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Kubernetes Version 1.23: What’s New for Security? 

Aqua Security

Like clockwork, a new Kubernetes release is upon us, with loads of interesting new features to consider. A couple of the key features in Kubernetes 1.23 are hitting the beta level and will be enabled by default. In this post, we’ll explain what they mean for security, both in terms of improving cluster security and what you need to account for as new clusters are rolled out with this version.

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The EVERY Co. grabs $175M as it cracks code on animal-free protein products

TechCrunch

The EVERY Co. , a company that has developed a precision fermentation technology to make animal-free proteins, like eggs, is having a good 2021. First the company, formerly known as Clara Foods, secured a deal in April with BioBrew , an investment of AB InBev’s investment arm, ZX Ventures, to brew its animal-free protein at scale. EVERY’s first egg protein will be launching as a co-branded ingredient with its first retail customer later this year.

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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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CI/CD is Still all About Open Source

DevOps.com

One of the lessons I’ve learned in my years at the helm of DevOps.com is that the heart of DevOps is CI/CD. And at the heart of CI/CD is open source. While the names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the obsolete), these lessons are as true today as they ever were. CI/CD […]. The post CI/CD is Still all About Open Source appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Iterative Adds Experiment Versioning to MLOps Platform

DevOps.com

Iterative today added an experiment versioning capability to an open source platform for managing machine learning operations (MLOps) using GitOps workflows. Dmitry Petrov, Iterative CEO, said the latest version of the Data Versioning Control (DVC) platform makes it simpler to save, compare and reproduce machine learning (ML) experiments at scale without requiring organizations to set […].

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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg apologizes to current employees for ‘blundering’ of mass layoffs; SPAC delayed

TechCrunch

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg apparently realizes he’s done wrong. (As if the barrage of negative publicity wasn’t enough evidence of that.). Today, a letter to current employees was leaked on Blind by a verified Better employee. In the letter, Garg apologized for the way he (mis) handled the layoff news last week, writing: “I failed to show the appropriate amount of respect and appreciation for the individuals who were affected and for their contributions to Better.

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700K more cybersecurity workers, but still a talent shortage

TechBeacon

For the second year in a row, the global shortage of cybersecurity workers has eased, but it's still not time to celebrate, much less relax.

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Circle comes around again with fresh capital, led by Tiger Global, for $200M valuation

TechCrunch

Having a thriving community is the backbone for creators, but when the global pandemic hit, brands also found that they needed similar engagement with customers that were now interacting with their products online. Circle is working to make those engagements effortless by building a community platform so that creators and brands can bring their discussions, members and content together in one place, kind of like a “Shopify for creator and brand-led communities,” Sid Yadav, co-founder and CEO tol

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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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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in GOautodial

Synopsys

Broken authentication and local file inclusion leads to information disclosure and remote code execution in the GOautodial API. The post CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in GOautodial appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Better.com’s PR, comms, marketing heads submit resignations in wake of layoffs fiasco

TechCrunch

Better.com continues to find new ways to make itself look bad. This week, sources familiar with internal happenings within the company told TechCrunch the company’s VP of communications, Patrick Lenihan; head of public relations, Tanya Gillogley; and head of marketing, Melanie Hahn, have all submitted their resignations. Insider also reported the news earlier today.

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Securing the Software Supply Chain with Behavioral Analysis

DevOps.com

Lately, software supply chains find themselves in a very interesting and uncomfortable position—the industry spotlight—and not in a good way. While significant and costly breaches such as SolarWinds or Kaseya make front-page news, supply chain attack tactics (e.g. typosquatting or dependency confusion) that target package managers such as npm, PyPI or WinGet can poison downstream […].

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Jupe wants to solve for X, where X is the 1.5B people without adequate shelter

TechCrunch

“We’re not making f **g glamping tents for bros at Coachella,” Jeff Wilson, co-founder and CEO at Jupe is eager to reassure me, as he outlines his vision for the company. “At this point, food is a distribution problem, clothing is largely solved. There are about 1.5 billion people in the world that still don’t have adequate shelter.

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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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DevSecOps for Databases: Data Masking, Cloud Backup, WAF and More

DevOps.com

DevSecOps is everywhere. More and more organizations realize that the traditional separation between DevOps and security is wasteful and dangerous. As a result, they are rushing to integrate security into all their software development processes. Adding security to containerized applications, cloud resources and other parts of modern DevOps infrastructure is already well understood.

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Torq raises $50M Series B for its no-code security automation platform

TechCrunch

Torq , a Portland, Oregon-based no-code security automation startup formerly known as StackPulse , today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. New investor SentinelOne , the publicly traded endpoint security platform, also participated in this round, as well as existing investors GGV Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Enabling Microservices, APIs, Cloud-native SaaS, Headless: Netlify Joins the MACH Alliance

Netlify

Today Netlify joins the MACH Alliance as a first member of the “Enabler” category. We’ve already been working closely with many of its members for years and we are super excited to become the official orchestration platform for MACH projects. What is MACH? What is the MACH Alliance? It stands for M icroservices based, A PI-first, C loud-native SaaS and H eadless.

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Therify hopes to build a more diverse and inclusive therapist network with $1.3M seed round

TechCrunch

Finding the right therapist is never an easy task, but it gets even harder when, as a person of color or someone with disabilities, there are few or no people sharing your experience available. Therify hopes to change that with a network of providers from and catering to marginalized populations. “It just makes a ton of sense,” co-founder James Edward Murray told me.

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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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18 New Fully Managed Connectors for AWS, Azure, Salesforce, and More!

Confluent

In our February 2020 blog post Celebrating Over 100 Supported Apache Kafka® Connectors, we announced support for more than 100 connectors on Confluent Platform. Since then, we have been focused […].

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Receeve, a debt recovery and collection platform, takes total funding to $16M with ABN AMRO

TechCrunch

Banking is undergoing a huge transformation, and how debt collections operations engage customers is becoming a big issue, especially with things like BNPL schemes. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in the last few years digitalizing financial and other services, but debt collections operations remain very manual and archaic, resulting in frustration for customers and lost money for service providers.

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From Legal Practice to Podcasts: Spotlight on Mel Scott

Megaport

Have you ever wanted to pursue a passion outside of work, but didn’t quite know how to get started? That was Mel once. Megaport’s Senior Legal Counsel isn’t your average in-house lawyer. Bubbly, creative, and full of bright ideas, if Mel wants to try something new, she won’t let anyone stop her. Seriously, back in 2016 she lived on chicken and broccoli for nine months to compete in a bodybuilding.

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Hummingbird lands $30M to bring design thinking to anti-money laundering investigations

TechCrunch

Hummingbird , which sells anti-money laundering software to banks and fintechs, announced today that it raised a $30 million Series B led by new investor Battery Ventures. Existing investors Flourish and Homebrew also participated in the round alongside FinVC and Plaid cofounder William Hockey. The round, Hummingbird’s first since its $8.2 million Series A last year, brings its total funds raised to $41.8 million.

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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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From Legal Practice to Podcasts: Spotlight on Mel Scott

Megaport

Have you ever wanted to pursue a passion outside of work, but didn’t quite know how to get started? That was Mel once. Megaport’s Senior Legal Counsel isn’t your average in-house lawyer. Bubbly, creative, and full of bright ideas, if Mel wants to try something new, she won’t let anyone stop her. Seriously, back in 2016 she lived on chicken and broccoli for nine months to compete in a bodybuilding.

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USAID should let for-profit companies help it build a better world

TechCrunch

Chris Watson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Chris Watson is the director of the International Development Division at Premise and an evangelist for using data to improve the impact of development programs. In 2019, the U.S. Agency for International Development developed the “ New Partnerships Initiative ” (NPI) to build a “safer, healthier and more prosperous” world for people everywhere.

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Firebase vs. AWS: Which One to Choose for Your App Project in 2022?

Radixweb

In this technology-driven world, the IT industry is moving rapidly and at an ultra-fast pace. If we go back in the past, desktops were the significant devices in the technology world. But soon, desktop devices were replaced by mobile devices. With the emergence of the mobile era, the technology world has changed its paradigm. The … Continue reading Firebase vs.

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Lydia grabs another $100 million for its European financial super app

TechCrunch

Just a few weeks after announcing stock and crypto trading , French fintech startup Lydia is announcing that it has raised a $100 million Series C round. With this funding round, the startup has reached a unicorn valuation, which means that it is currently valued at more than $1 billion. Dragoneer and Echo Street are investing in the startup for the first time, and many of Lydia’s existing investors are putting more money on the table, such as Tencent, Accel and Founders Future.

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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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DXC

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MAJORITY raises $27M Series A six months after its seed round to expand mobile banking for migrants

TechCrunch

MAJORITY , a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. Other existing investors, including Avid Ventures , Heartcore Capital and a group of Nordic fintech founders, also participated in the raise. The round comes just six months after MAJORITY raised $19 million in seed funding , which TechCrunch previously reported, bringing MAJORITY’s total funding to $46 million to date.

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Empowering Women in Agile

Agile Alliance

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