DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
As remote work continues into 2021, developer teams are still navigating the new landscape for working across distributed teams and how this new way of working affects product delivery. In particular, there are several key challenges that every developer must face this year, including adapting to new tools and workflows internally, balancing the prioritization of […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The onset of the pandemic has led to increased demand for digital banking options across customer income groups around the world. We’ve seen how digital banks like Zolve and Nubank have raised money in recent months to fill this need. This time, a startup from Africa has joined the party. TymeBank , a South African digital bank, announced today that it has secured an R1.6 billion (~$109 million) investment from new investors in the U.K. and Philippines.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The virtual ElasticON Public Sector US Federal on April 13. This is a great event for anyone in government who wants to learn best practices from peers and industry leaders […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
This morning Shippo , a software company that provides shipping-related services to ecommerce companies, announced a new $45 million investment. The new capital values the startup at $495 million. TechCrunch is calling the new funding a Series D as it is a priced round that followed its Series C; the company did not award the round a moniker. Shippo’s 2020 Series C, a $30 million transaction that was announced last April, valued the company at around $220 million.
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Enterprises are undergoing rapid changes. Throughout the past year, companies have been pressed to learn a diversified set of technologies and methods to remain agile in a changing economy. In this digital-first world, data plays a heightened role; in tandem, so does the delivery of data and the persistence of the database layer itself. Applying […].
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TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
At the heart of any software delivery effort should be the deployment pipeline, widely popularized by Jez Humble and Dave Farley in their groundbreaking 2010 book, Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
After going over four years without raising any capital, coding class platform Codecademy has raised a new tranche of money: a $40 million Series D round led by Owl Ventures, with participation from Prosus and Union Square Ventures. The startup is the latest edtech business to bring on capital after years without it, a list that includes ClassDojo , CourseHero , Quizlet and Udacity.
The Crazy Programmer
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
In this article, we will understand the idea of Kadane’s Algorithm. We discuss this with the help of an example and also discuss a famous interview problem related to it. Then, we will look at the implementation and analyze the complexities of our approach. Kadane’s Algorithm. This algorithm is useful in solving the famous ‘Maximum Sum Subarray’ problem.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Mobile advertising company ironSource is announcing its second acquisition of the year — Luna Labs , a startup that that’s built a platform allowing app developers to create and manage video and playable ads. When I first wrote about the startup in 2019 , its main selling point was the ability to create those ads directly from from the Unity game engine used by many developers.
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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.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Digital transformation has become a key initiative for many enterprises, facilitated by the emergence of easy-to-use cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes. This year, the COVID-19 outbreak has pushed enterprises even further to accelerate their digital journeys. As they do this, security is constantly raised as a key concern, but it should also be viewed as a key enabler.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Katana , an Estonian startup that has built manufacturing-specific enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for SMBs, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is European venture capital firm Atomico, with participation from angel investors Ott Kaukver (Checkout.com CTO), Sten Tamkivi (CPO Topia, formerly Skype), Sergei Anikin (CTO, Pipedrive) and Kairi Pauskar (former TransferWise HR Architect).
Netlify
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Welcome to a two-part series where we will build out an Angular site that grabs data from Sanity.io, a headless CMS, using Netlify Functions and Build Hooks. Let me break it down a little more. In part 1 we will: Start with a pre-rendered Angular site template. Setup up a headless CMS with Sanity.io. Grab the data from the CMS using Netlify serverless function.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Lucid Motors reached an agreement to become a publicly traded company through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital IV Corp., in the largest deal yet between a blank-check company and an electric vehicle startup. . The combined company, in which Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will continue to be the largest shareholder, will have a transaction equity value of $11.75 billion.
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
A global survey published today by AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, suggests the last year took a substantial toll on IT teams at a time when many organizations either launched or accelerated digital business transformation initiatives. The survey, of 1,050 IT professionals in organizations with revenue of more than $500 million, finds organizations, on average, […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It turns out, where there are flies, there’s brass. Better Origin is a startup that converts waste food into essential nutrients using insects fed to chickens inside a standard shipping container. It’s now raised a $3 million seed round led by Fly Ventures and solar entrepreneur Nick Boyle, while previous investor Metavallon VC is also participating.
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Meet Kevin Smith, a Staff Customer Operations Engineer within the US Public Sector support team. He sums up his day-to-day by saying he works directly with clients on technical cases and provides support and guidance as they troubleshoot unexpected behavior. He also serves as a member of several project teams focusing on upgrade experiences, internal tools, product testing, training, and documentation.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5 million in a Series B funding led by Finnish VC fund Evli Growth Partners, alongside previous investors Karma Ventures and LVV Group. Ex-Rovio CEO Mikael Hed also invested and joins as board chairman. We first covered the Vilnius-based company when it raised €200,000 from Practica Capital. Founded in 2011 by 3D designer Marius Kalytis (now COO), CGTrader has become a significant 3D content provider — it even claims to be the world’s largest.
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“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.
Scott Berkun
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
There’s been plenty of news about Americans struggling to register to get vaccinated for COVID. I noticed a story missing from the news: no one was asking about the problem from a design perspective. So I wrote this piece for Fast Company that explains what we all can learn. It’s easy to dismiss news like this and shake our heads. But it turns out the mistakes made here weren’t just about web design, but about management, planning and lip service policies , issues many organiza
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It would be an understatement to say that enterprise-focused startups have fared well during the pandemic. As organizations look to go remote, and the way we work has been flipped on its head, quickly-growing tech companies that simplify this transition are in high demand. One such startup has, in fact, raised $61.5 million in the last 12 months alone.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Every once in a while, it is a good idea to take stock of the environment and the market around us to determine if what we are doing is what we should be doing. I’m a developer, not a prognosticator, so these observations are simply based on my experience in the development world, along with […]. The post Languages and DevOps: Embedded appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Spreadsheet software — led by products like Microsoft’s Excel, Google’s Sheets and Apple’s Numbers — continues to be one of the most-used categories of business apps, with Excel alone clocking up more than a billion users just on its Android version. Now, a startup called Rows that’s built on that ubiquity, with a low-code platform that lets people populate and analyze web apps using just spreadsheet interfaces, is announcing funding and launching a freemium o
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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.
Dataiku
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
In January, our Dataiku Lab team presented their annual findings for up-and-coming machine learning (ML) trends , based on the work they do in machine learning research. In this series, we're going to break up their key topics (trustworthy ML, human-in-the-loop ML, causality, and the connection between reinforcement learning and AutoML) so they're easy for you to digest as you aim to optimize your ML projects in 2021.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Mark your calendar for TechCrunch’s annual celebration of the startup community — TC Disrupt 2021 returns this September 21-23! At Disrupt , you’ll rub virtual elbows with the thousands of startup founders, investors and innovators building cutting-edge products and companies. Disrupt will be all-virtual, allowing more builders from around the world to share in the learning, growth, connection and excitement that you can only experience with TechCrunch. .
James Shore
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Second Edition cover. This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Your feedback is appreciated! To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Whether you’re working on something new according to your Twitter bio, or self-employed, according to your LinkedIn bio, founder Ben Huffman thinks his platform, Contra, will be the best way for independent workers to explain and monetize what they are working on. Contra is a platform that wants professionals to create profiles that show project-based identities, versus a role-based identity that one would show on LinkedIn.
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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.
Experience to Lead
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Michael Bach an internationally recognized thought-leader on diversity and inclusion shares his thoughts on IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility) in today’s organizations. While this topic is important every month, we would like to begin by acknowledging that February is Black History Month and a great time to think deeply about what your organization [.].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
FluroSat and Dagan, two startups that both are tackling the monitoring and management of agricultural inputs and outputs for a better understanding of the role sustainable agriculture can play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, have merged and are launching a package of services under a new brand, Regrow. The merge, announced yesterday, will create a company that combines FluroSat’s data-driven agriculture management services with Dagan’s soil biogeochemical modeling technology, t
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Industry veteran, Joseph Schorr, joins company to lead partner program CHICAGO – February 23, 2021 – LogicGate, a leading provider of cloud software solutions for automating governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes through its Risk Cloud™ platform, today announces they have partnered with Ascent, a provider of AI-based solutions that automate regulatory compliance processes and […].
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