Thu.Oct 27, 2022

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Adopting Shift Left Testing in Software QA

DevOps.com

I am often asked to recommend best practices for building software testing programs. The problem is that it depends on your definition of “best.” What works for an innovative startup developing software and deploying agile development sprints is not necessarily going to suit an established public company launching a new web product. The software development […].

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5 top ERP trends for 2022 — and their implications for IT leaders

CIO

It wouldn’t be far-fetched to call ERP (enterprise resource planning) the brain of an organization’s IT infrastructure. After all, an ERP system streamlines, standardizes, and integrates a wide range of vital business processes across diverse business functions. Implementing an ERP solution ranks among the most capex-intensive projects any IT leader will undertake.

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Neoplants bioengineers houseplants to use them as air purifiers

TechCrunch

Meet Neoplants , a French startup that is designing genetically modified houseplants so that they can absorb air pollutants. The startup’s first plant, the Neo P1, works hand in hand with the company’s own microbiome located in the soil near the plant roots. Neoplants targets specifically a group of indoor air pollutants that can’t be efficiently captured by traditional air purifiers.

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Leadership playbook: Michelle McKenna’s winning formula for CIOs

CIO

A transformer, teambuilder, and trailblazer, Michelle McKenna founded her executive advisory firm, The Michelle McKenna Collaborative, after spending 10 seasons as the National Football League’s first-ever CIO and its first female C-level executive. Those are just two of the many “firsts” McKenna has accomplished over the course of her career, which has also included executive leadership roles at Disney and Universal Orlando Resort.

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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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3 VCs explain how founders can stand out when pitching

TechCrunch

Venture capitalists get flooded with startup pitches, which can make it difficult for founders, especially those building in crowded categories, to stand out. While every investor is looking for something different, there are ways founders can improve their chances of getting noticed. Speaking at last weeks’ Disrupt 2022 conference, investors Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins; Sheel Mohnot, co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures; and Jomayra Herrera, partner at Reach Capital, said t

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How to raise funds when you aren’t in the Bay Area

TechCrunch

Perhaps sitting perched somewhere in sunny Miami, Florida, is a founder wondering the best ways to fundraise for a company when situated outside a traditional tech hub like the Bay Area. They need not worry. Last week, Mike Asem from M25, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund and Accel’s Rich Wong answered that question at TechCrunch Disrupt. The consensus of the venture capitalists was that remote work accelerated the trend of VCs looking at emerging markets, founders and companies throughout the

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ServiceNow buoyant about growth despite economic headwinds

CIO

Workflow automation provider ServiceNow on Wednesday said it remained optimistic about growth for the rest of the year, despite the uncertain macroeconomic environment, hoping the situation will in fact boost demand for its offerings. “As you know, they (enterprises) are either not hiring, they’re laying people off, and they have to do more with less.

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5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market

TechCrunch

Corey Wilton. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Corey Wilton is the co-founder and CEO of Mirai Labs , the gaming studio behind Pegaxy. The first wave of the play-to-earn (P2E) gaming boom seems to be coming to an end. There are still plenty of blockchain studios staging successful multimillion-dollar raises around the globe, but competition for funds has tightened to the point where only standout projects are winning backers.

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How Cloud Security Influences IoT Security

Xebia

I keep on finding security issues at IoT vendors cloud services, and that saddens me. That is why I joined Xebia to learn more about cloud security and help IoT vendors to fix security issues with their cloud infrastructure. The default security of our IoT devices are improving. The cloud services behind the devices are not. These cloud services are used to control the devices and collect all data, so securing this is very valuable.

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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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English-learning startup ELSA launches Speech Analyzer to help people gain conversational confidence

TechCrunch

ELSA , the English-language learning app known for its speech recognition technology, is launching a new product called Speech Analyzer. The assessment platform plugs into communication tools like Zoom and analyzes conversational speech to suggest areas for improvement, including pronunciation, pacing and vocabulary. It is meant to act like a language coach to help people prepare for tests, presentations, interviews or just gain more confidence when speaking English.

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Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications

DevOps.com

Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Fermyon Cloud is now available in open beta. Fresh from raising $20 million in funding, […].

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Uber alum rakes in $9.7M to curb finance-related fights between co-parents

TechCrunch

If you’re a parent, one of the hardest things about getting divorced is still having to deal with your ex about financial matters regarding your children. And, according to a 2015 report , just 50.2% of all 13.6 million custodial parents in the United States had either legal or informal child support agreements. Even in those cases, most agreements don’t cover expenses beyond the basics such as medical bills and extracurricular activities, among other things.

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Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux. The post Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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The lack of VC funding to women is a Western societal shortfall

TechCrunch

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., and over there, all throughout Europe. It’s hard to say that some of these metrics represent investors simply pulling back when data shows the bias has historical precedence. Even in 2008, all-women U.S. founding teams raised 1.2% of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data.

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Avoiding the Kubernetes Cost Trap!

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes has engulfed the Developer community with its popularity. It’s still a wonder offered on a silver platter (as it is open-source). The increasing Kubernetes costs come as no surprise when it has set the de facto standard of container orchestration. Yet, here we are talking about putting curbs on our Kubernetes bills. There’s a key differentiator to think through these costs – is it spending or wasting resources?

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Daily Crunch: Mason raises $7.5M seed round to scale its no-code commerce engine

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello! And it’s Thursday! We are all waiting with bated breath for the latest installment of “Will Elon Actually Buy Twitter or Will He Squirrel Out of It” — the miniseries of indeterminate length and too many twists and turns to enumerate.

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How to Use window.crypto in Node.js

David Walsh

I’ve been writing a bunch of jest tests recently for libraries that use the underlying window.crypto methods like getRandomValues() and window.crypto.subtle key management methods. One problem I run into is that the window.crypto object isn’t available, so I need to shim it. To use the window.crypto methods, you will need Node 15+. You can set the window.crypto by importing the crypto package and setting it on the global: const crypto = require('crypto').webcrypto; // Shims the crypt

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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HealthJoy raises $60M to make benefits easier to navigate

TechCrunch

Healthcare benefits are great, but navigating them often isn’t. HealthJoy wants to make the experience more seamless for employees, while helping HR departments reduce the number of underutilized benefits. The Chicago-based company announced today it has raised $60 million in Series D funding, led by Valspring Capital with participation from Endeavor Vision and CIBC Innovation Banking.

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Software Quality is the Heartbeat of the Best Organizations

DevOps.com

JPMorgan recently announced it was hiring 2,000 engineers, despite the gloom in global economic markets. Is this not an odd risk for an organization to take, given the demand for (and cost of) software developers today? What’s happened? JPMorgan’s hiring drive is no mystery. Virtually every company in the world is leveraging software, with many […].

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Skidattl’s augmented reality beacons are ‘like a Bat-Signal for fun’

TechCrunch

Skidattl wants to use augmented reality to get people to engage with the real world. It’s a story we’ve heard before from AR companies, particularly as they pit themselves against the potentially isolating effects of virtual reality. But rather than chasing metaversal Pokémon creatures on the street, Skidattl aims to use AR “beacons” to show people what’s going on around them.

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Anti-Patterns in Incident Response That You Should Unlearn

Dzone - DevOps

It is important to invest time and effort in understanding why a system performs the way it does and how we can improve it. Companies continue with practices that yield successful results but ignoring anti-patterns can be far worse than choosing rigid processes. In this article, we will explore anti-patterns in incident response and why you should unlearn those.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Dispute between founders and board leaves Capiter in arrears to employees and creditors

TechCrunch

Last month, Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform Capiter made headlines after founders Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Nouh were ousted by its board as CEO and COO. The reasons were unclear, as both parties didn’t publicly comment on the situation; however, from various local news outlets, they ranged from mismanagement of funds to failure to report to the board and work out a potential merger, as well as internal disagreements over management methods.

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Sigstore Code Signing Service Becomes Generally Available

DevOps.com

A free digital signing service for software created by the Sigstore open source community has become generally available this week via the cloud. Announced at the SigstoreCon event that occurred during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, the cloud service makes it possible for developers to both cryptographically sign artifacts and verify that the […].

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Accel backs startup offering ‘Amazon-grade’ commerce engine to online sellers around the world

TechCrunch

Accel has backed a startup named Mason based in India and the U.S. that has built a commerce engine for sellers around the world to help them sell products online without paying the exorbitant “Amazon tax.” The California-based startup, which has its R&D headquarters in Bengaluru, is claimed to allow sellers to have their D2C storefront ready with a 50% uplift in their margins from day one.

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How To Install Stimulus In a Rails App

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this tutorial, you will install Stimulus using Webpacker and Rails 7. If your Rails app is is not using the Webpacker gem, you will learn how to run it over Webpack. So, installing Stimulus should be just a few commands away. Keep reading! Rails 7 + Webpacker + Stimulus. Since the moment Rails Stimulus was released, I thought of giving it a try and checking its performance in a Rails app with React already set up.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Integration platform Cinchy lands fresh cash to connect data sources

TechCrunch

Cinchy , a startup that provides a data management service for enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $14.5 million in Series B funding led by Forgepoint Capital with participation from IVP, SUV, Techstars and Mars. Bringing the company’s total raised to $24 million, the capital will be put toward scaling Cinchy’s outreach and continuing to invest in the startup’s core technology, CEO Dan DeMers told TechCrunch in an interview. “Data management remains an ex

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Preventing A $70K Cost Spike In 4 Clicks — And Protecting Our Profit (Video)

CloudZero

At CloudZero, the thing we do better than any other cost solution is connect the dots between cloud cost and your businesses. While other solutions offer reporting and dashboards that answer, “How much did we spend?”, CloudZero also enables you to answer “Why?”.

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SGNL.ai secures $12M to expand its enterprise authorization platform

TechCrunch

SGNL.ai , a company developing enterprise authorization software, today announced that it raised $12 million in seed funding led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Fika Ventures, Moonshots Capital and Resolute Ventures. CEO Scott Kriz said the proceeds will be used to develop the company’s core products and hire the initial team, as well as work with design partners to refine SGNL’s solution.