Thu.Dec 01, 2022

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PepsiCo transforms for the digital era

CIO

For any IT leader new to an organization, gaining employee trust is paramount — especially when, like PepsiCo’s Athina Kanioura, you’ve been brought in to transform the way work gets done. Kanioura, who was hired away from Accenture two years ago to serve as the food and beverage multinational’s first chief strategy and transformation officer, says earning employee trust was one of her greatest challenges in those early months.

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Kenya’s Uncover raises $1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa

TechCrunch

Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The market’s potential has in recent years attracted major brands, with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna and LVMH being the latest entrants. Niche local brands are also emerging to offer tailored beauty and skin care products.

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Hastings Mutual Insurance: A Proactive Approach to Modernizing Content Management

CIO

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s digitalized world, customers value transparency and accessibility above all else. As a result, organizations are taking a proactive approach to provide critical content to end users at the click of a button. For over 130 years, Hastings Mutual Insurance Company has served and protected its clients throughout the Midwest.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

An automated status updater for Slack isn’t the only thing Mozilla acquired this week. On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project.

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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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Introducing a product delivery culture at Etsy

Martin Fowler

A second article exploring the challenges Etsy faced as it scaled up. Tim Cochran relates how CTO Mike Fisher identified problems with the product delivery process, built a cross-functional Product Delivery Culture team to analyze the situation, and began an improvement program based on lean thinking and the ideas of Marty Cagan.

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BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

TechCrunch

A little over a year after buzzy coding bootcamp Lambda School rebranded as Bloom Institute of Technology , the venture-backed startup is conducting massive layoffs, according to sources. The workforce reduction, per people familiar with the matter, has impacted half of the company’s staff across content, product, data and engineering teams. The layoff is expected to have impacted around 88 employees, using metrics provided in BloomTech’s 2022 diversity report metrics. .

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Tim Berners-Lee Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, never set out to change the world when he developed what would become one of the most important inventions of our time. Tim Berners-Lee , the inventor of the World Wide Web, has won many awards in recognition of his contribution to society as a whole and to the internet in particular. Here’s what you need to know about him before you bring him on as an expert or speaker for your next event.

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Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack

TechCrunch

Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped up recently shuttered California-based productivity startup Pulse. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but the deal is tantamount to an “acqui-hire,” with Mozilla looking to deploy the Pulse team across an array of machine learning (ML) projects. “We’re acquiring Pulse for the incredible team they have built,” Mozilla chief product o

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Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s resignation overshadows solid sales growth

CIO

Salesforce’s third-quarter financial report Wednesday showed a solid 14% year-over-year increase in revenue, beating analysts’ expectations, but was overshadowed by the announcement that company co-CEO Bret Taylor will be stepping down. The move will leave company founder Marc Benioff once again running the company as lone CEO. Salesforce’s revenue growth, totalling $7.8 billion for the quarter ending October 31, was largely driven by subscription and support revenue, which increased by 13% yea

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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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Smartphone re-commerce startup Badili raises $2.1M pre-seed funding

TechCrunch

Badili , a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 million pre-seed funding to scale its operations within Africa; one of the fastest-growing mobile phone market in the world. The Venture Catalysts, V&R Africa, Grenfell holdings, and SOSV, participated in the round, as did family offices and angel investors from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and India.

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Deploying Grafana to Azure App Service with Terraform (and Active Directory integration)

Xebia

Intro. Grafana is a free and open source platform which allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics. As your system grows bigger and has more moving parts, it becomes vital to be able to tell wheter it’s healthy and operational at a glance. In Azure you can get your Grafana up and running by different means: Use Azure Managed Grafana.

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On-demand car rental company Kyte is now offering car subscriptions

TechCrunch

Car rental delivery startup Kyte said it’s on a mission to disrupt the auto industry by making people think twice about buying a car. Starting Wednesday, Kyte will now offer a car subscription service, following what the startup says was a successful subscription pilot with Teslas. The three-, six- and 12-month subscription plans will be available to all 14 markets in which Kyte operates, such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Boston and, most recently, Fort Lauderdale, the company

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Technology Leadership in a pre and post pandemic world

CIO

Nick Marchand, Vice President, Digital & Technology Operations and Cyber Security, Cineplex discussed leadership in the post pandemic world.

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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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Startup valuations are declining — but not consistently

TechCrunch

While this year’s stock market decline was swift, it was also widespread, with very few companies escaping the downturn. But current market conditions haven’t caused the same uniform trajectory for startups. When public-market stock prices started to fall, everyone reminded themselves that it would take a few months to see the real impact on the private market — historically a six-month lag.

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Aqua Nautilus Discovers Redigo — New Redis Backdoor Malware

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus discovered new Go based malware that targets Redis servers. The attack was executed against one of our deliberately vulnerable Redis honeypots (CVE-2022-0543). Our investigation revealed new undetected malware written in Golang designed to target Redis servers to allow the attacking server to dominate the compromised machine. Therefore, the malware received the name Redigo.

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5 methods for leveraging digital advertising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Alex Song. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Song is the CEO and founder of Proxima , a data science company that helps brands better reach consumers across all major platforms. More posts by this contributor. 5 ways to seize the opportunities created by recent chaos in ad tech. Why D2C holding companies are here to stay. For those on the sidelines, the story of digital advertising over the past couple of years has been as entertaining as a binge-worthy TV series.

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AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story. The post AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week 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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Pitch Deck Teardown: Hour One’s $20M Series A deck

TechCrunch

Over the years, Mike Butcher has covered Hour One a number of times here on TechCrunch. The company is using AI to create text-to-video solutions with realistic-looking human avatars. The space seems to be exploding, and Hour One has been on quite the trajectory. The company raised $5 million back in 2020 , was taking on the language learning vertical and raised another $20 million in a round that closed in April of this year.

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Article: Enabling Effective Remote Working - Principles and Patterns from Team Topologies

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article shares ideas, principles, and practices from Team Topologies (and related topics) to help organizations approach their structures' design and evolution to better support interactions in remote working. It also shares examples to showcase their impact when used to better approach organizational design, in general, and particularly to support remote working.

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How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators

TechCrunch

One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. CVC boomed through last year, leading TechCrunch to interview a number of CVC investors last August to better understand the trend. As with other forms of venture capital, CVC has pulled back some this year. Accelerators also had a pretty good run through 2021: Recall that Y Combinator cohort sizes reached new records and the group boosted the amount of capital that it invest

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Trivy Now Scans Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

Aqua Security

While more and more companies are moving to a cloud native technologies to manage their workloads and infrastructure, Virtual Machines (VMs) remain a staple infrastructure that powers many existing organizations and applications. Trivy, the all-in-one open-source security scanner, already scans most of the cloud native stack including containers, clusters, and clouds.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

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. There is officially only 8.3% left of the year. You know what that means! Holidays, cheer, and daydreaming about what shenanigans we’ll get ourselves into in 2024. Yes, 2024, because clearly we’re just going to skip past all of 2023.

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7 Tips for Fundraising on Social Media

TechSoup

In our increasingly interconnected world, about 82 percent Americans use some form of social network. Social media has become an important channel nonprofits can use to boost their outreach and fundraising capabilities.

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Shield, a communication compliance platform for financial institutions, raises $20M

TechCrunch

Two months ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had fined 16 Wall Street firms more than $1.1 billion for “widespread recordkeeping failures” regarding maintaining electronic communications, contravening federal securities laws. In addition, the SEC is now probing private equity firms on their employees’ use of messaging apps for work purposes, including WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram, as many of these apps have functions that support messages that disappear

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Nobl9 Adds Free Tier to SaaS Platform for Managing SLOs

DevOps.com

Nobl9 this week announced it is making available a perpetual free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing service level objectives (SLOs). The free tier was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference and the company also revamped its pricing. Nobl9 Teams Edition (formerly Nobl9 Hydrogen) now includes 50 SLOs, up from 25, for […].

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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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X1 gets 50% valuation boost, aims to give consumers a way to buy stocks via credit card reward points

TechCrunch

X1 , a consumer fintech startup which recently launched an income-based credit card to the public, has raised an additional $15 million in funding. . This round caught our attention for a few reasons. For one, a consumer fintech raising in this environment is a bit counter to the narrative that startups in the space are generally struggling. (For example, digital bank Chime recently laid off 12% of its workforce , or about 160 people.).

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GraphQL Vulnerability Analysis: The Top Threats

DevOps.com

Publicly available vulnerability data can be a goldmine for insights into how DevOps and DevSecOps teams can prioritize threats and improve security across the pipeline. With this in mind, Inigo recently performed a deep-dive analysis of known vulnerabilities affecting GraphQL components—including GraphQL clients such as Relay and GraphQL servers such as Apollo, Graphene, Ariadne, GitLab […].

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This secondary markets expert says we haven’t hit bottom yet

TechCrunch

Earlier today, we talked with Phil Haslett, the cofounder and now chief strategy officer of EquityZen , a 10-year-old, New York-based secondary marketplace that connects accredited buyers with privately held company shares that their owners — including founders, employees, and VCs — are looking to sell. It’s a tough business to be running right now, competing as it is with shares of publicly traded companies that are selling at fire-sale prices compared with a year ago and are

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