TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
Snack , a video-first mobile dating app designed with a younger generation in mind, is opening itself up to Gen Z investors. The startup today announced the launch of its own Gen Z Syndicate on AngelList, which will allow Gen Z community members, influencers, creators and others to participate in the company’s upcoming $2 million SAFE , alongside other funds and angel investors.
Career Advancement
MAY 10, 2021
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie. Maybe you see yourself as a consistent overachiever—someone who always gets the job done well and on time—but you still have the sneaking suspicion that you’re not one of the boss’s favorite employees. Perhaps one of your coworkers has a much stronger rapport with your boss, even though you always go above and beyond expectations.
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TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
Blind has carved out a unique niche in the social-networking world. It’s an app of verified, pseudonymous employees talking to each other about what’s going on at their employers, trading notes on everything from layoffs, to promotions, to policies. Part LinkedIn, part Reddit, part Slack — it’s become widely popular among tech workers at Silicon Valley companies, and even outside the tech industry, with 5 million verified users.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 10, 2021
Avoid This Huge Mistake with a Bad Hire. As a human-centered leader, you might just be tempted to hold onto an obviously bad hire too long. And, holding onto a bad hire (after you’ve done all you can) is one of the biggest leadership mistakes you can make. We see so many managers hold on to false hope, increasing the agony for everyone. The Bad Hire Question I’ve Asked Hundreds of Times. “When did you know he was a bad hire?
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
Kara Penn is the mother of four daughters and owner of Mission Spark, a management and strategy consulting company. And now, thanks to Hustle Fund, she is also an angel investor. Hustle Fund is coming out of stealth today with Angel Squad , a new initiative aimed at making angel investing more accessible to more people. To more people like Colorado-based Penn. “ We believe that in order to increase diversity in the startup ecosystem, one thing that we must do is increase diversity — whethe
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TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
Dr. Bobbie Kumar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dr. Bobbie Kumar is a board-certified family physician and director of Clinical Innovation at Inflect Health as well as as director of Clinical Innovation at Vituity, leading many of Vituity’s transformative programs including telemedicine, care navigation and health technology next-generation prototype programs.
DevOps.com
MAY 10, 2021
Spring is here, and after a year filled with record-setting digital transformation and its associated vulnerabilities, now is the right time to give the open source components in your codebase a refresh. For many development teams, today’s open source operations present a ‘mess’ that’s difficult to clean up; often, no one knows how many libraries, […].
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Can I transfer my H-1B to a startup I founded?
DevOps.com
MAY 10, 2021
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The Change Intelligence observability platform from Lightstep is based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events […].
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TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
Alex Circei. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. More posts by this contributor. Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews. If you care about remote employees, start tracking their performance. For many founders, Y Combinator is a coveted milestone on the entrepreneurial road.
CEO Insider
MAY 10, 2021
When I walked into the position of CEO of Snap printing and design, a 120-year-old Australian business with over 130 franchise outlets, my thoughts were how to innovate and drive the business in what many would see as a declining industry. Little could I expect that a few months into my term as CEO that […]. The post Secrets To Driving Change Needed To Thrive In A Crisis appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
This morning ServiceNow announced that it was acquiring Lightstep , an applications performance monitoring startup that has raised more than $70 million, according to Crunchbase data. The companies did not share the acquisition price. ServiceNow wants to take advantage of Lightstep’s capabilities to enhance its IT operations offerings. With Lightstep, the company should be able to provide customers with a way to monitor the performance of applications with the goal of detecting problems be
DevOps.com
MAY 10, 2021
According to the most recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, almost 90% of data breaches are driven by financial gain, up from 71% in last year’s report. Most noteworthy, however, is that cloud platforms are particularly at risk, with web application attacks increasing by 43%. As more information is stored within cloud infrastructures, and as […].
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.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. Perhaps that’s why Sixty8 Capital , a firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, smack dab in the middle of the country, has chosen to launch a new $20 million fund aimed at providing early stage funding for underrepresented founders.
The Daily WTF
MAY 10, 2021
For those looking to get into software development, there's never been more access to tutorials, guides, training programs, and communities of developers ready to foster those trying to get started. Unfortunately , you've got folks that think because they've written a few websites, they're ready to teach others, and write up their own tutorials without having the programming background or the educational background to effectively communicate best practices to the public.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
This morning, construction tech unicorn Procore Technologies set a price range for its impending public offering. The news comes after the company initially filed to go public in February of 2020, a move delayed by the pandemic. As TechCrunch reporter Mary Ann Azevedo reported at the time, the hiatus came with a large check to see the company through its public-offering pause.
Cloudera
MAY 10, 2021
The introduction of CDP Public Cloud has dramatically reduced the time in which you can be up and running with Cloudera’s latest technologies, be it with containerised Data Warehouse , Machine Learning , Operational Database or Data Engineering experiences or the multi-purpose VM-based Data Hub style of deployment. In CDP Private Cloud, the introduction of Cloudera Data Warehouse and Cloudera Machine Learning Experiences on RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters means that we can deploy new
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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.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
Startup Battlefield , the world’s preeminent pitch competition, has launched hundreds of startups over the years — 922 if you want to be a stickler about it. The next Battlefield takes place at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Yup, that sound you hear is opportunity knocking. If you want a shot to compete against some of the most innovative early-stage startups in the world, apply to Startup Battlefield here before the application window closes on May 13 at 11:59 pm (PT).
Cloudera
MAY 10, 2021
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) provides an API that enables you to access CDP functionality from a script, or to integrate CDP features with an application. In practice you can use the CDP API to script repetitive tasks, manage CDP resources, or even create custom applications. You can learn more about the API in its official documentation. There are multiple ways to access the API, including through a dedicated CLI , through a Java SDK , and through a low-level tool called cdpcurl. cdpcurl is des
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2021
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Dzone - DevOps
MAY 10, 2021
Distributed tracing, like logging and observability, is a key functionality for keeping your services healthy and predictable. Contrary to logs and observability, which shows what happens on a service, tracing allows developers and operators to follow a specific request and how it calls different services and dependencies. It is designed around microservices architecture, which—unlike monolith architecture—uses many small services to run a platform.
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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.
Dell EMC
MAY 10, 2021
Explore how you can supercharge and secure your Elastic Cloud Storage cluster for lightning-fast reads. Learn how to change drives with one click in the UI, and more.
Arcserve
MAY 10, 2021
Ransomware is everywhere. From home users to major universities to local governments—even massive tech firms like Apple—all kinds of organizations are being attacked. And these attacks are becoming ever more frequent and highly targeted. Ransom demand costs soared to nearly $75 million in 2020 according to Emsisoft. And IT Canada says ransomware figures could be.
TechBeacon
MAY 10, 2021
The motives of the average cybersecurity attacker haven’t changed much in decades. Although we now have to contend with nation-state actors carrying out geopolitical agendas, the reality is that the impetus is largely the same: Hackers primarily seek to profit or cause chaos.
General Leadership
MAY 10, 2021
A lease renewal agreement can include changes to other terms, but must also address the rental time. A contract that simply modifies terms of a lease outside of the rental period is known as a lease amendment or lease addendum. Its important to compose the lease renewal template and send it in a timely manner, so your tenant has enough time to respond to it before the existing lease expires.
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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.
CircleCI
MAY 10, 2021
Software development is changing rapidly. On one hand, you must quickly adapt to evolving requirements, while on the other, your applications need to operate continuously without downtime. DevOps helps you quickly adapt to changes. Among other initiatives, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are intgegral to any DevOps practice.
General Leadership
MAY 10, 2021
“(2) In the case of instruments relating to immovable property chargeable with, an ad valorem duty on the value of the property, and not on the value set forth in the instrument, the instrument shall fully and trully set forth, the annual land revenue in the case of revenue paying land, the annual rental or gross assets, if any, in the case of other immovable property, the local rates, municipal or other taxes if any, to which such property may be subject, and any other particulars which m
Beyond B2B
MAY 10, 2021
March 2021 saw the publication of the Prudential Regulation Authority’s 2021 Operational Resilience Instrument (ORI).
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