Martin Fowler
OCTOBER 26, 2021
James Shore has revised his book "The Art of Agile Development". I'm pleased to write a foreword for this book as it is solid guide to learning how to get past faux-agile and develop the skills you need to get the benefits of the agile way of work.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India , has raised $115 million in what is the largest funding round for an agritech startup in India, where farm produce yields two-thirds of the country’s $1 trillion in annual retail spending. Sofina and Lightrock co-led the 10-year-old startup’s Series D financing round.
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DevOps.com
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Most of us are not FAANG, and we shouldn’t act like we are. Instead of using that, I’m going to use the term we used to use to refer to them: “Web Monsters”, which isn’t 100% accurate, but includes more than just the five FAANG members (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) for this article. […]. The post Hiring When You’re Not FAANG appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Tel Aviv-based Piiano wants businesses to keep their customers’ data private. The company is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $9 million funding round led by YL Ventures , together with a group of angel investors that include Snyk founder Danny Grander, Armis co-founder Nadir Izrael, Papaya Global co-founder and CEO Eynat Guez, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica, as well as well-known angel investor Ariel Maislos.
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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
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Codenotary today unfurled a free notarization and verification service for open source artifacts and containers to enable IT organizations to track the provenance of the components that make up their applications. Dennis Zimmer, Codenotary CTO, said the Community Attestation Service is based on an immutable open source immudb database that cryptographically attaches an identity to […].
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DevOps.com
OCTOBER 26, 2021
History has been marked by opaque and totalitarian power systems. Aided by prisons and walls that keep out the light. The concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals has marked human evolution. From feudalism to fascism, the annulment of the rights of individuals has been based on obscurantism and ignorance. Information has […]. The post AsyncAPI: Transparency as a Value appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
HiveWatch , an LA-based startup that uses multi-sensor fusion to help companies better respond to physical security threats, has secured $20 million in Series A funding led by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain. The former Twitter execs — Costolo as CEO and COO, and Bain served as COO — say HiveWatch resonated with them because of the pain they experienced scaling their own physical security programs. ”When running a company, nothing is more important than your employees.
TechBeacon
OCTOBER 26, 2021
For a web application to run as expected, all clickable links should forward users to specific and correct URLs. Unfortunately, there can sometimes be thousands of clickable and navigable links in a web app, making it tiresome (and potentially unreliable) to check all of them manually. And as we will discuss below, some link testing methods are not dependable.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Finding a way to connect with people who might buy from you, while spending less time pursuing those who will never be interested, is something akin to a holy grail of the world of sales and marketing. Now, a startup called UserGems , which has built a platform that combines AI with data mapping to help identify the most likely candidates for B2B sales and marketing prospecting — by making it easier to connect with those who have been customers before who have now moved to different jobs &
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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.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 26, 2021
The Eclipse Foundation in collaboration with the OpenAtom Foundation today launched the Oniro project and working group to create an independent implementation of OpenHarmony, an open source operating system. Created by the OpenAtom Foundation, the OpenHarmony operating system is based on a HarmonyOS originally created by Huawei. It is designed to support multiple kernels but […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Bridgit , a “workforce intelligence” technology company that is focused on the construction industry, announced today that it has raised CAD$24 million, or about US$19.4 million, in Series B funding. Camber Creek and Storm Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the Toronto-based startup’s total raised to more than CAD$35 million. Nine Four Ventures also put money in the round, along with existing backers BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund, StandUp Ventures, Sands Capital and Van
Daffodil Software
OCTOBER 26, 2021
For handling complex client-server environments, IT teams swear by the trails provided by logs and metrics data. These trails have a proven record in significantly reducing the Time to Detect (TTD), Time to Mitigate (TTM), and Time to Remediate (TTR) whenever the server or the environment behaves sub-optimally.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Based in Hong Kong, Finverse ’s ambitious goal is to enable open banking throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The startup recently came out of stealth mode with $1.8 million in seed funding, and is now live in four markets (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam) with connections to 30 banks. Founder and chief executive officer Stephane Lesaffre told TechCrunch that Finverse plans to launch in one new market per quarter, with the goal of covering about 75% of consumer and SMEs banks in
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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.
Dataiku
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Managing one model at a time is pretty easy. But how do you go about managing tens of models, or even more? Vincent Gallmann, Senior Data Scientist at French bank FLOA , answered this question in a 2021 Product Days Session on managing data science projects with Dataiku.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Traditional Web site and app bug bounty platforms, such as HackerOne and BugCrowd, have been successful in that old-world model. But there is a massive difference between the existing “Web 2.0” bug bounties and the new era of “Web 3.0” bugs associated with blockchains and crypto. In the era of Decentralised Finance (DeFi), Web 3.0 bug bounties take on the critical nature of being associated with actual monetary value, not just software bugs.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 26, 2021
CircleCI today announced it has added a Test Insights capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to make it easier to identify tests that are either taking too long to run or simply exhibiting some form of anomalous behavior. Dawit Gebregziabher, project manager for data insights at CircleCI, said Test Insights is designed to […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
While software development frameworks make developing software faster and easier than ever, pre-deployment testing gets more and more complex by the day. Over the past decade, Testlio has grown exponentially and positioned itself as an “Elance for Software Testing.” In addition to its own team of 150 or so, the company now commands an army of 10,000+ vetted freelance testers across 150 countries around the world.
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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.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 26, 2021
During an online InfluxDays North America 2021 Virtual Experience conference, InfluxData today expanded the capabilities of its application development tools using its Flux query language on top of its time-series database. The company has enhanced its InfluxDB Notebooks tool to enable developers to quickly set up an alert, build a task or write a Flux […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Speech recognition has gone from convenient to crucial over the last few years as smart speakers and driving assist modes have taken off — but not everyone’s voice is recognized equally well. Speechmatics claims to have the most inclusive and accurate model out there, beating Amazon, Google and others when it comes to speech outside of the most common American accents.
Cloudera
OCTOBER 26, 2021
As Halloween night quickly approaches, there is only one question on every kid’s mind: how can I maximize my candy haul this year with the best possible candy? This kind of question lends itself perfectly to data science approaches that enable quick and intuitive analysis of data across multiple sources. Using Cloudera Machine Learning, the world’s first hybrid data cloud machine learning tooling, let’s take a deep dive into the world of candy analytics to answer the tough question on everyone’s
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Last year we covered Adtech startup Admix’s $7 million Series A funding. The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited.
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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.
The Daily WTF
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Database administrators tend to be pretty conservative about how databases are altered. This is for good reason- that data is mission critical, it's availability is vital, and any change you make threatens that stability and reliability. This conservatism ranges from "we have well defined processes for making changes" all the way to "developers are dangerous toddlers playing with guns and we can't allow them to do anything lest it break our precious database." "Grumpy
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Crossbeam founder and CEO Bob Moore founded his startup to help companies building sales partnerships understand their overlapping accounts, using a process called account mapping. He knew that eventually the company would benefit from a network effect as customers attracted other partners to the network. As that vision has come to fruition, it has caught the attention of investors and today the company announced a $76 million Series C.
Trigent
OCTOBER 26, 2021
DevOps is the ideal practice for software development businesses that want to code, build, test, and release software continuously. It’s popular because it stimulates cross-skilling and self-improvement by creating a fast-paced, results-oriented, collaborative workplace. QA in DevOps fosters agility, resulting in speedier operational support and fixes that meet stakeholder expectations.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Medable , a patient-focused clinical research company offering a cloud offering for adoption of digital and decentralized clinical trials, brought in a new capital infusion of $304 million in Series D funding — its fourth round since 2020 — to give it a valuation of $2.1 billion. Medable’s software-as-a-service connects patients, trial sites and clinical trial teams to streamline the design, recruitment, retention and data quality of trials in a way that makes them accessible to anyone anywhere.
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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.
Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2021
We’ve all been there. Your manager wants to give you some performance feedback and wraps it up in so much blah, blah, blah that you aren’t really sure what the message is or what you’re supposed to do with it. The technical term for what you got is the feedback sandwich. There’s so much fluffy, doughy verbiage on the front end and back end of the conversation that whatever nutritional value there might be in the middle is pretty much lost.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
The labor market is changing. More workers expect to keep working in a remote manner, even if many large employers are reticent to support the movement. The longer the pandemic drags on, the more it appears that work will look quite different in the future. As TechCrunch has reported, startups have already cast their lots in with a remote future , often building their early teams across time zones and geographies.
Radixweb
OCTOBER 26, 2021
JavaScript has become a go-to language in the software development industry. The front-end developers aim to create feature-rich UI with JavaScript development and engage with back-end web services using AJAX. Since JavaScript offers non-blocking nature, web developers who work on the server-side have shifted their paradigm to JavaScript. In fact, choosing JavaScript development services as … Continue reading How to Install Node.js and NPM on Windows and Mac?
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