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An Essential Guide to Develop Human Resource Management Software

Radixweb

Human Resource Management is one of the most essential and primary assets in every organization, irrespective of industry and its size. Therefore, to streamline the HR management system, Human Resource Management Software secures its place in an organization.

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CatalyzeX grabs $1.64M seed to help developers find right machine learning model

TechCrunch

Machine learning is exploding, and so are the number of models out there for developers to choose from. While Google can help, it’s not really designed as a model search engine. That’s where CatalyzeX comes in: It not only helps developers find the most appropriate model for their data, it provides a direct link to the code in a simple interface.

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History of HTML

The Crazy Programmer

HTML is one of the first things that a student learns during a web development course. Hence, it becomes essential to learn about the history of HTML and its version in an accurate timeline. So, if you are also a web development learning enthusiast and wish to have a deep understanding of the same. Then read this crucial article to understand some foundational information about the same.

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Huge deals are pushing more AI startups into IPO territory

TechCrunch

Venture investors are betting that AI-focused startups are ready for the public markets, making more, larger, earlier bets on such companies. It’s a great time to raise capital if your startup is building with — or on top of — artificial intelligence, regardless of how far along you are toward an exit. While many startup niches have seen their funding tallies rise in 2021, AI startups appear to be enjoying strong gains across younger and older cohorts, implying a broad base of custom

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Netlify Acquires OneGraph, A Powerful GraphQL Platform for Connecting APIs and Services

Netlify

Today we’re thrilled to announce that Y Combinator and SignalFire-backed OneGraph is joining Netlify, driving innovation in the Netlify platform to make it even easier to compose apps with APIs and services. We launched Netlify in 2015 to help developers move from legacy monolithic web architecture to Jamstack, where the web presentation layer is decoupled from backend logic.

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Mastering the Shared Responsibility Model

DevOps.com

It’s no secret that cloud-native application development is growing exponentially, with Agile development, IaaS and PaaS from providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, enabling innovation at a pace that is challenging for security to keep up with. A global pandemic and the resulting remote work mandates have only accelerated this movement. And with this change […].

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Why DEI programs are failing

TechCrunch

Candice Bristow. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Candice Bristow is director of EID and recruiting at Expel Inc. Businesses have struggled to establish diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) work environments for some time now, but the events of 2020 put a spotlight on just how bad most organizations are at building impactful DEI efforts. After COVID-19 resulted in staggering unemployment trends across the U.S., the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported in October that Black and Latinx

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Your Ego is not your Amigo – 4 key ways to boost your confidence and overcome self-sabotage

CEO Insider

These are unprecedented times. Changes in working conditions, legislations and “flexible working” are on an entirely new level. How we operate and must lead today, is like nothing we’ve experienced before. COVID has turned whatever plan we might have had completely on its head and now suddenly companies are making community and government type decisions. […].

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3 ways fintech companies can help retailers launch financial services

TechCrunch

Tom Brandl. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tom Brandl is chief risk officer at Prime Trust. Two of the country’s biggest retailers, Walmart and Walgreens, recently announced they are launching their own financial services. This makes sense. The pandemic has resulted in a shift in consumer behavior that now favors contactless and digital banking options, and with one in four U.S. adults considered unbanked or underbanked, this presents an opportunity to offer services to a deep and loyal cu

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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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New Year, New Plans—But No New Predictions

CEO Insider

Predictions were rightly cancelled in 2020; instead, benefits professionals look to 2022 with thoughtful planning. One of my new year’s resolutions is to never make another prediction. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that predictions don’t hold much water. Instead, I’ve learned to make flexible plans rather than firm predictions. So, it’s with that mindset […].

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Brazilian social commerce marketplace Facily quietly raises $366M in less than a year, now valued at $850M

TechCrunch

Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace, has quietly raised over $366 million in funding across four different rounds over the last year. Most recently, Facily closed on a $250 million Series D that was led by DX Ventures and Berlin-based Delivery Hero , with Citius as co-anchor investor. That investment values the startup at $850 million.

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Nobl9 Adds Hydrogen Platform to Surface Technical Debt Issues

DevOps.com

Nobl9 today unveiled a Hydrogen platform that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to identify technical debt issues as they manage service level objectives (SLOs) as code. Hydrogen enables DevOps teams to define SLOs using a simple wizard or by embedding code within their application as part of a DevOps workflow. That code is then […]. The post Nobl9 Adds Hydrogen Platform to Surface Technical Debt Issues appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Sequoia backs blockchain scaling startup StarkWare at $2 billion valuation

TechCrunch

As the crypto world continues to heat up, developers are clinging to the Ethereum network despite its general struggle to meet the stresses of a global network’s transaction load. To speed and cheapen transactions on Ethereum, developers are looking toward so-called Layer-2 (L2) blockchains, which build on the Ethereum network, offloading the computational stresses while still writing transaction data to the main network.

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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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Plutora Enhances VSM Platform with Release Insights

DevOps.com

Plutora has enhanced its value stream management (VSM) platform to provide dashboards that enable DevOps teams to better optimize application delivery. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said dashboards added to the platform will make it possible for application release managers to leverage predictive analytics to manage application delivery in […].

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EasySend raises $55.5M for a no-code platform to build online interactions with customers

TechCrunch

No-code continues to permeate the many layers of enterprise IT, where traditionally non-technical workers have had to rely on technical experts to get things done, and startups building these tools are raising a lot of money as they see a surge of business. In the latest development, EasySend — a Tel Aviv startup that has built a platform for people to build customer interactions using drag-and-drop interfaces that do not require knowing any coding languages — has raised $55.5 millio

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Tracee Runtime Security Series: Writing Custom Tracee Rules

Aqua Security

As an open source runtime security tool, Tracee provides a base rule set that can detect a variety of attacks. However, there’s often the need to add new rules either to contribute to the project or to provide specific rules for your environment. Because Tracee allows for new rules to be written in Rego and Golang, you have a variety of options for creating a rule set that works for your environment.

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Credit-focused company Upgrade raises $280 million at $6 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Fintech company Upgrade has raised a Series F round just four months after raising its previous round. Today, the company is announcing $280 million in new funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation. In August, the company announced its Series E round — $105 million at a $3.325 billion valuation. In other words, the company is both well capitalized and has increased its valuation by a few billion dollars in very little time.

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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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Stopping Mobile Fraud With Automation and DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Mobile fraud is a multibillion-dollar problem that’s only getting worse. One study showed that mobile click fraud alone rose 64% during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, during the pandemic, about one in five mobile ad clicks were fraudulent. And that’s just one form of mobile fraud. Weaponized botnets, mobile malware, […].

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Medium acquires Knowable to bring audio to the platform

TechCrunch

Medium announced today its third and final acquisition of the year: Knowable , an audio-based learning platform featuring podcast-like courses from experts like Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and food journalist Mark Bittman. Medium’s other acquisitions this year include Projector , a browser-based graphic design tool, and Glose , a social book-reading app.

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How to cut your Selenium test run time by 70%

TechBeacon

Deep inside the implementation of every automated UI test lies the potential to turn something simple into something slow and unreliable—simply by adding extra Selenium commands. The reason: Longer tests are less likely to pass.

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Deskimo, the on-demand desk booking app, raises $3M and expands to Jakarta

TechCrunch

Singapore-based Deskimo , the on-demand app that lets people find co-working spaces and pay by the minute, announced today it has raised a $3 million seed round. It is also soft launching in Jakarta, bringing its total markets to three, along with Singapore and Hong Kong. Participants in the round included Y Combinator (Deskimo was part of its summer 2021 cohort ), Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, Seed X, Starling Ventures and TSVC.

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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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NiFi as a Function in DataFlow Service

Cloudera

Introduction. With the general availability of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) , our customers can now self-serve deployments of Apache NiFi data flows on Kubernetes clusters in a cost effective way providing auto scaling, resource isolation and monitoring with KPI-based alerting. You can find more information in this release announcement blog post and in this technical deep dive blog post.

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PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability

TechCrunch

PlanetScale , the serverless database company founded by the co-creators of the Vitess opensource project that powers YouTube, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series C funding round led by Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors a16z, SignalFire and Insight Partners also participated in this round, together with GitHub CEO and co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, Lattice CEO and founder Jack Altman and Instacart co-founder Max Mullen.

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How Self-Learning AI protects McLaren Racing from supply chain attacks

Darktrace

A new part of the McLaren car is created every 15 seconds, with suppliers around the world contributing to the team’s success. From a security perspective, each of these providers represent a potential chink in McLaren’s defensive armor. Learn why the security team chose Darktrace’s AI to protect the organisation from supply chain attacks.

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Contra partners with TikTok to add a little LinkedIn flavor to the social video app

TechCrunch

Contra, a professional network for freelance workers, is partnering with TikTok to allow users to showcase their resumes and portfolios via TikTok Jump, the social media service’s third-party integration tool. The new partnership will allow creators to link their Contra profile to their TikTok videos to showcase their professional portfolios. With this new integration, creators can now add a “View My Portfolio” link to their TikTok content.

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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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The Benefits of Cloud Modernization

Datavail

Some organizations assume that all they need to do is lift their on-premises databases and applications and shift them to the cloud to bring them in line with modern requirements. However, legacy software was never written with cloud capabilities in mind. They may function poorly post-migration or fail to meet performance expectations. Your company ends up paying for cloud resources that cannot get used properly.

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Hydrosat closes another $10M in funding for ground temperature analytics product

TechCrunch

Hydrosat , a geospatial data startup, has secured $10 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ground temperature analytics product. The company aims to collect surface temperature data using satellites equipped with infrared sensors. This data, which it will sell as a subscription data analytics product, could be used to better understand water stress, wildfire threat and drought – three factors that remain all too prescient as we come to the end of California’s driest

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Succeeding at 100 Days Of Code for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Some call it a challenge. Others call it a community. Whatever you call it, 100 Days Of Code is a bunch of fun and a great learning experience that helps […].